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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">News from the American Library Association<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tempus Sans ITC";color:#0062AC">Pamela J. Hickson-Stevenson, Ohio Chapter Councilor to ALA and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tempus Sans ITC";color:#0062AC">Akron-Summit County Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tempus Sans ITC";color:#0062AC">Phone 330.643.9102 Fax 330.643.9160</span><span style="color:#0062AC"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#0062AC">The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support, improve, and enrich
individual, family, and community life.</span><span style="color:#0062AC"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Don Wood [mailto:dwood@ala.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> alacro-l@ala.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [alacro-l] YALSA announced its nominees for the Nonfiction Award today<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Y</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ALSA selected five books as finalists for the 2012 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, which honors the best nonfiction
books written for young adults between Nov. 1, 2010 and Oct. 31, 2011. YALSA will name the 2012 award winner at the Youth Media Awards on Jan. 23, during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Dallas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> The 2012 finalists are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
</span></b></em>written by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
</span></b></em>written by Karen Blumenthal, published by Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
</span></b></em>written by Sue Macy, published by National Geographic Children’s Books.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
</span></b></em>written by Susan Goldman Rubin, published by Charlesbridge.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery</span></b></em><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span></strong>written by Steve Sheinkin, published by Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Annotations and more information on the finalists and the award can be found at
<a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction">www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction</a>. YALSA sells finalist seals to librarians and publishers to place on books at
<a href="http://www.alastore.ala.org/">www.alastore.ala.org</a>. YALSA will host a reception honoring the finalist authors and the winner, as well as YALSA’s Morris Award winner and finalists, at a free reception, 10:30 a.m. to noon on Jan. 23 in Omni Hotel
in the Dallas E room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Members of the 2012 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award committee are: Chair Jennifer Hubert, Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School, New York; Mary Burkey, Olentangy
Local Schools, Columbus, Ohio; Elizabeth Burns, New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center, Trenton, N.J.; Betty Carter, Consultant, Coppell, Texas; Diane Colson, Tampa, Fla.; Megan Fink, Charlotte (N.C.) Country Day Middle School; Pam Spencer
Holley, Consultant, Hallwood, Va.; David C. Mowery, Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library; Mary Anne Nichols, Kent State University of Library and Information Science, Kent, Ohio; John Sexton, administrative assistant, Greenburgh, New York; and Dan Kraus,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Booklist</span></em> <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Magazine,</span></em> Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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