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The Assem­bly on Lit­er­a­ture for Ado­les­cents (ALAN) of the National Coun­cil of Teach­ers of Eng­lish
(NCTE) is pleased and proud to announce the win­ner of the inau­gural Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden
Book Award for Young Adult Fic­tion. Estab­lished in 2008 to honor the wishes of young adult
author, Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden, the award allows for the sum of $5,000 to be pre­sented annu­ally
to the author of a young adult title selected by the ALAN Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden Book Award
Com­mit­tee as demon­strat­ing a pos­i­tive approach to life, wide­spread teen appeal, and lit­er­ary merit.
The win­ner of the 2010 Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden Award is:

Fire by Kristin Cashore
(Dial)

The 2010 Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden Award final­ists are:
Marcelo in the Real World by Fran­cisco X. Stork
(Arthur A. Levine)
The Mon­stru­mol­o­gist by Rick Yancey
(Simon and Schus­ter)
North of Beau­ti­ful by Justina Chen Headley
(Lit­tle, Brown and Com­pany)
The Sweet­heart of Pros­per County by Jill S. Alexan­der
(Fei­wel and Friends)

All Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden Award titles will be iden­ti­fied by an award sticker—gold for the win­ner
and sil­ver for the four final­ists. This year’s win­ning title and final­ists will be hon­ored at an open
recep­tion on Mon­day, Novem­ber 22, imme­di­ately fol­low­ing the 2010 ALAN Work­shop in Orlando,
Florida.

The 2010 Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden Award Com­mit­tee would like to thank: the Amelia Eliz­a­beth
Walden Award Foun­da­tion; the ALAN Exec­u­tive Coun­cil; the ALAN Board of Direc­tors; past AEWA
chair Dr. Wendy Glenn; NCTE; and last, but not least, the more than twenty pub­lish­ers who sub­mit­ted
titles for consideration.

The 2010 Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden Award Com­mit­tee con­sid­ered 202 young adult titles through­out
the process. The com­mit­tee was com­prised of ten mem­bers rep­re­sent­ing the uni­ver­sity, K-12 school,
and library communities.

They are:
Daria Plumb, Com­mit­tee Chair
Class­room Teacher
River­side Acad­emy, Dundee, MI
Erica Berg
Class­room Teacher
Rockville High School, Ver­non, CT
Jean Boreen
Pro­fes­sor
North­ern Ari­zona Uni­ver­sity, Depart­ment of Eng­lish, Flagstaff, AZ
C.J. Bott
Retired Class­room Teacher and Con­sul­tant
Solon, OH
Lois Buck­man
Librar­ian
Caney Creek High School, Con­roe, TX
Jeff Harr
Class­room Teacher
Theodore Roo­sevelt High School, Kent, OH
Jeff Kaplan
Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor
Uni­ver­sity of Cen­tral Florida, Col­lege of Edu­ca­tion, Orlando, FL
Bon­nie Kun­zel
Youth Ser­vices and Ado­les­cent Lit­er­acy Con­sul­tant
Ger­man­town, TN
Teri Lesesne
Pro­fes­sor
Sam Hous­ton State Uni­ver­sity, Depart­ment of Library Sci­ence, Huntsville, TX
Bar­bara Ward
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor
Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­sity, Depart­ment of Teach­ing and Learn­ing, Rich­land, WA