Shiver and The Night Wanderer

So, I read Shiver.  I really liked it once I got into it.  The characters are fully developed and it acknowledges the reality of some teens parents.  I also really liked when the same events were told from the perspectives of Sam and Grace.
The Night Wanderer was interesting as well.  I figured out pretty quickly what the main character was.  I found it really interesting to hear the history of the Ojibwa from the point of view of Pierre L'Errant.  The girl is very realistically portrayed and I have to say I remember arguments similar to that which I had to my parents.

YA International Awards

This is the complete list of awards that we looked at.  There's even more than these!  Another good source is the Children and Young Adult Literature Handbook by John Gillespie.  Other sources also includes White Ravens, IBBY and Crossing Boundaries with Children's Books edited by Doris Gebel.

Awards

• Some awards are given out to international authors from outside the country rather than the authors who are from the country. An example of this is the BILBY award, which is an Australian award that has been awarded to Roald Dahl, a British author because the awards are chosen by children.
• Some awards have had multiple name changes, but the qualifications for the prize either do not change at all or change very little.
• European Awards
• Hans Christian Anderson award – this book is administered by the IBBY Secretariat and is extremely prestigious having been nicknamed “the little Nobel Prize”. A gold medal and diploma are awarded every two years to an author and an artist based on the entire body of their work and the fact that they are considered to have made a lasting contribution to children's and young adult literature (Gillespie, 2005).
• Astrid Lindgren Prize – Established in 1967, this annual award is given to honour achievements in writing for children
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award – Established in 2002, the Astrid Lindgren Award may be awarded to writers, illustrators, narrators and/or promoters of reading whose work reflects the spirit of Astrid Lindgren (Swedish Arts Council).
• This award is awarded to authors of any nationality. This year, the winner is Shaun Tan, an Australian.
• UK Award
• Carnegie Medal
• The sponsor for this medal is The [British] Library Association. The medal is awarded annually for “an outstanding book for children and young people”. Www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk
• Booktrust Teenage Prize
• This award was begun in 2003 and recognizes contemporary teenage fiction. A shortlist of about ten titles is selected in the spring and the winner is announced in November. (Gillespie, 2005) www.booktrusted.co.uk/booktrust/teenage

• Australian Awards
• Cross Pen Prize for Young Adult Fiction, formerly the Sheaffer Prize for Adult Young Fiction, formerly Alan Marshall Prize for Children's Literature
• This award is awarded to an Australian author and is based on literary merit, so illustrations are not taken into consideration.
• Multicultural Children's Literature Award – established in 1991, the award is presented to encourage authors to deal with issues of cultural diversity in their books for young readers and to present themes of social justice and supportive community relations in a positive. This award is divided into three categories: picture, junior and senior.
• New Zealand Awards
• Te Kura Pounamu Award – Established in 1995 by the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, this award is given annually to the author of book for young people written in the Maori language. The author must be a citizen or resident of New Zealand.
• Russell Clark Award – Named after the prominent New Zealand illustrated, this annual award, first presented in 1978, is given to a New Zealand illustrator for the most distinguished illustrations for a book for children or young adult.
• South Africa
• Percy Fitzgerald Award – Sponsored by the English Academy of Southern Africa, this biennial award is given to the author of a children's book in English. The author must be living in South Africa or the book must be from a South African perspective.
  Many literary prizes are awarded in South Africa for books written in languages other than English (Gillespie, 2005)