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The American Library Association Young Adult Library Services Association has announced the award winners for 2012.

The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature goes to:

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley. Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

Printz Honor Books:

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler.  Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

The Returning by Christine Hinwood. When the six-year war between the Uplanders and Downlanders is over and Cam returns home to his village, questions dog him, from how he lost an arm to why he was the only one of his fellow soldiers to survive, such that he must leave until his own suspicions are resolved.

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey.  In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater.  Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.

The Margaret A. Edwards Award for an author whose books have made a "significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens" goes to Susan Cooper for her The Dark Is Rising Sequence.

The Alex Award (Adult Books that Appeal to Teens)

The Morris Award (New Authors)

Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Productionjavascript:mctmp(0);

Note These Special Events 

Special Library Events:   

• Meet E. Lockhart (Real Live Boyfriends - the fourth Ruby Oliver book, and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks) at the Bethesda Library on Thursday, February 9, 5 p.m. More

• Meet  Marie Lu (Legend), Andrea Cremer (Nightshade series), Beth Revis (Across the Universe), and Jessica Spotswood (The Cahill Witch Chronicles) at the Bethesda Library on Thursday, February 16, 5 p.m. More

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