In the spring issue of YALS, you’ll find an easy-to-reference listing of all the YALSA award winners and book and media lists announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Since ebooks are on the rise, I thought I’d take a look at which of the winners are currently available as ebooks and which are available for libraries on OverDrive.
Counting the winners and honors of the awards (except for Odyssey) and the top ten books on the Best Fiction, Quick Picks, and Popular Paperback lists, we end up with 50 unique titles. Of those, 37 are available as ebooks that can be purchased through the usual channels including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Google Books. The only titles that aren’t available electronically are non-fiction titles, graphic novels, and older fiction titles. Of the 37 ebooks, 20 are available for libraries to lend in OverDrive, according to their search engine.
As the ebook market continues to grow, I expect we will see more backlist titles become available, while full-color ereaders and tablet computers will allow graphic-intensive books to be offered electronically. Whether or not more ebooks will be available for library lending, however, remains to be seen. I hope that next year, more of the award-winning and noteworthy books honored by YALSA will be available to as many readers as possible in their desired reading format.
Alex Awards
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| Big Girl Small | Rachel DeWoskin | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2011 | x | |
| In Zanesville | Jo Ann Beard | Little, Brown & Company | 2011 | x | |
| The Lover’s Dictionary | David Levithan | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2011 | x | x |
| The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens | Brooke Hauser | Free Press | 2011 | x | |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | Doubleday | 2011 | x | x |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Crown Publishers | 2011 | x | x |
| Robopocalypse: A Novel | Daniel H. Wilson | Doubleday | 2011 | x | x |
| Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | Bloomsbury USA | 2011 | x | x |
| The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures | Caroline Preston | Ecco | 2011 | ||
| The Talk-Funny Girl | Roland Merullo | Crown Publishers | 2011 | x | x |
Edwards Award
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| The Dark Is Rising Sequence | Susan Cooper | x |
Morris Award
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| Where Things Come Back | John Corey Whaley | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 2011 | x | |
| Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys | Philomel Books | 2011 | x | x |
| The Girl of Fire and Thorns | Rae Carson | Greenwillow Books | 2011 | x | x |
| Paper Covers Rock | Jenny Hubbard | Delacorte Press | 2011 | x | x |
| Under the Mesquite | Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Lee and Low Books | 2011 | x |
Printz Award
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| Where Things Come Back | John Corey Whaley | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 2011 | x | |
| Why We Broke Up | Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman | Little, Brown and Company | 2011 | x | |
| The Returning | Christine Hinwood | Dial Books | 2011 | x | x |
| Jasper Jones | Craig Silvey | Alfred A. Knopf | 2011 | x | x |
| The Scorpio Races | Maggie Stiefvater | Scholastic Press | 2011 | x |
Nonfiction Award
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery | Steve Sheinkin | Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press | 2011 | x | |
| Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science | Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos | Clarion Books | 2011 | ||
| Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition | Karen Blumenthal | Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press | 2011 | x | |
| Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) | Sue Macy | National Geographic Children’s Books | 2011 | ||
| Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein | Susan Goldman Rubin | Charlesbridge | 2011 |
Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys | Philomel Books | 2011 | x | x |
| Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Laini Taylor | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 2011 | x | |
| Everybody Sees the Ants | A.S. King | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 2011 | x | |
| The Girl of Fire and Thorns | Rae Carson | Greenwillow Books | 2011 | x | x |
| How to Save a Life | Sara Zarr | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 2011 | x | |
| Leverage | Joshua C. Cohen | Penguin Group USA/Dutton Juvenile | 2011 | x | x |
| A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness. Illus by Jim Kay | Candlewick Press | 2011 | x | x |
| The Scorpio Races | Maggie Stiefvater | Scholastic Incorporated/Scholastic Press | 2011 | x | |
| Shine | Lauren Myracle | Abrams/Amulet Books | 2011 | x | |
| Under the Mesquite | Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Lee and Low Books | 2011 | x |
Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults Top Ten
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| Brain Jack | Brian Falkner | Ember | 2011 | x | x |
| Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd | Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci (eds.) | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 2010 | x | x |
| Here Lies Bridget | Paige Harbison | Harlequin Teen | 2011 | x | x |
| Hero | Perry Moore | Hyperion | 2009 | ||
| Jane | April Lindner | Poppy | 2011 | x | x |
| My Boyfriend is a Monster #1 | Evonne Tsang | Evonne Tsang | 2011 | ||
| Shattering Glass | Gail Giles | Simon Pulse | 2003 | ||
| Sidescrollers | Matthew Loux | Oni Press | 2006 | ||
| Super Human | Michael Carroll | Speak | 2010 | x | x |
| Tripping | Heather Waldorf | Red Deer Press | 2009 |
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Top Ten
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| Bronxwood | Coe Booth | Scholastic, Inc./Push | 2011 | x | |
| Chain Reaction | Simone Elkeles | Walker and Company | 2011 | x | x |
| D.C. Comics: The Ultimate Character Guide | Brandon Snider | DK | 2011 | ||
| Enclave | Ann Aguirre | Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends | 2011 | x | |
| Ghostopolis | Doug TenNapel | Scholastic Inc./Graphix | 2011 | ||
| Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life | James Patterson. Illus. by Lara Park and Chris Tebbets | Little, Brown and Company | 2011 | x | x |
| Pavement Chalk Artist: The Three-Dimensional Drawings of Julian Beever | Julian Beever | Firefly Books | 2010 | ||
| A Stolen Life: A Memoir | Jaycee Dugard | Simon & Schuster | 2011 | x | |
| Whoogles: Can a Dog Make a Woman Pregnant?…and Hundreds of Other Searches That Make You Ask ‘Who Would Google That? | Kendall Almerico and Tess Hottenroth | F + W Media/Adams Media | 2010 | x | x |
| The Zodiac Killer: Terror and Mystery | Brenda Haugen | Capstone/Compass Point Books | 2010 |
This is great! Thanks so much, EAB, for putting this together!