Book Awards: “The Lie Tree”

The L.A. Times Book awards were presented Friday night at USC just before the opening of the two-day L.A. Times Festival of Books. I am pleased to report that Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree won in the young adult literature category.
Read Alikes: “Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda”

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Shine by Lauren Myracle
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
When Everything Feels Like The Movies by Raziel Reid
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Book Trailer: “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda”
Read Alikes: “Audacity”

Day After Night: A Novel by Anita Diamant
Is It Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Accolades: “The Memory of Light”

- School Library Journal, starred review
- Kirkus, starred review
- Publishers Weekly, started review
- Booklist, starred review
Read Alikes: “The Lie Tree”

Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Book Review: “Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda”
Read Alikes: “Exit Pursued by a Bear”

All the Rage by Courtney Summers
Asking For It by Louise O’Neill
Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens
Girl In Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler
Accolades: “The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly”

- Longlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal, UK
- 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award Nominee, Children’s Text
- 2016 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award Nominee
- 2016/17 Texas Lonestar Award Nominee
- 2016/17 Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee
- A USBBY 2016 Selection for Outstanding International Books
- 2016 Canadian Library Association Honor Book, Young Adult Novel category
- 2016 OLA Red Maple Award Honor Book
- 2016 Saskatchewan Snow Willow Award Nominee
- 2017 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award Nominee
- Kirkus Reviews “Best Teen Books of 2015”
- Quill & Quire’s “Best Kids’ Books of 2015”
- The Globe 100’s “Best Books of 2015”
- “20 Best YA Books of 2015″ in The Telegraph (U.K.) – 5 out of 5 stars (Martin Chilton)
- Quill and Quire, Starred Review
- Kirkus, Starred Review
- 2016 CLA Honour Book of the Year for Young Adults
- 2016 Rainbow Book List