Lists of Bests: ALA Alex Award List

Send to Printer ALA Alex Award List The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998, and became an official ALA award in 2002. The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year’s publishing. The award is sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist. Edwards was a young adult specialist for many years at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore. Her work is described in her book Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts, and over the years she has served as an inspiration to librarians who serve young adults. The Alex Awards are named after Edwards, who was called “Alex” by her friends.
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	1.		The SECRET FAMILY: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS INSIDE THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF OUR MINDS AND BODIES by David Bodanis
	2.	?	All Over But the Shoutin by Rick Bragg
	3.		Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls by Rebecca Carroll
	4.		What Girls Learn: A Novel by Karin Cook
	5.		Snow in August by Pete Hamill
	6.		The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
	7.		Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
	8.		Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit by Velma Maia Thomas
	9.		Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice
	10.	?	To Say Nothing of the Dog (Bantam Spectra Book) by Connie Willis
	11.	?	THE ENDURANCE - SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION by Caroline Alexander
	12.		Getting In by James Finney Boylan
	13.		Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes by Andie Dominick
	14.		At All Costs by John Gilstrap
	15.		Space: A Memoir by Jesse Lee Kercheval
	16.		Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
	17.		Legends: Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy
	18.		Antarctica by Kim Robinson
	19.		Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
	20.		Caucasia: A Novel by Danzy Senna
	21.	?	High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears
	22.		Ender's Shadow (Ender, Book 5) (Ender's Shadow) by Orson Scott Card
	23.		River, Cross My Heart : A Novel by Breena Clarke
	24.		Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell
	25.		The Reappearance of Sam Webber by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
	26.	?	Stardust by Neil Gaiman
	27.		The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw
	28.		Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Trevino Hart
	29.	?	Plainsong by Kent Haruf
	30.		Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter
	31.		Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
	32.		Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn by Larry Colton
	33.		Daughter of the Forest (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Book 1) by Juliet Marillier
	34.		Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt
	35.		Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
	36.		Girl with a Pearl Earring: (Deluxe Edition) by Tracy Chevalier
	37.		In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
	38.		The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood
	39.		The Sand-Reckoner (Tom Doherty Associates Book) by Gillian Bradshaw
	40.		Soldier: A Poet's Childhood by June Jordan
	41.		Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
	42.		An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 by William Doyle
	43.		Gabriel's Story: A Novel by David Anthony Durham
	44.		Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
	45.		Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
	46.		The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife by Kobie Kruger
	47.		Kit's Law: A Novel by Donna Morrissey
	48.		The Rover by Mel Odom
	49.		Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
	50.		Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
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