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March 2020 Awards Roundup

4/3/2020

We are thrilled to share award news for fourteen Sourcebooks titles! Keep reading to see all of the details below.

Celebrating Sourcebooks' ALA Award Winners

2/22/2020

We are thrilled to celebrate all of our authors and illustrators that have been recognized by the American Library Association.

She/He/They/Me by Robyn Ryle is a Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book

The Stonewall Book Awards are given annually to English-language works of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience. The Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award is presented to non-fiction titles.

Learn more and see the full list here: http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/stonewall-book-awards.

Thinker **by Eloise Greenfield, illus. by Ehsan Abdollahi and Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by Kath Shackleton, are 2020 ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s Books**

Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding.

Learn more and see the full list here: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb.

We Are Lost and Found **by Helene Dunbar and You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman are on YALSA’s 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults List**

YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Blogging Team presents fiction titles published for young adults in the past 14 months that are recommended reading for ages 12 to 18. The purpose of the annual list it to provide librarians and library workers with a resource to use for collection development and reader’s advisory purposes.

Learn more here: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/best-fiction-young-adults. See the full list here: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-best-fiction-young-adults.

A Danger to Herself and Others **by Alyssa Sheinmel and I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal are on YALSA’s 2020 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Lis**

The Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list identifies titles aimed at encouraging reading among teens who dislike to read for whatever reason. The list selects both fiction and nonfiction.

See the full list here: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-quick-picks-reluctant-young-adult-readers.

You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman is on the 2020 Rainbow Book List

The Rainbow Book List is created by the Rainbow Book List Committee of the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association. It is a curated bibliography highlighting books with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning content, aimed at children and youth from birth to age 18.

Learn more and see the full list here: https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1331

November Awards Roundup

12/10/2019

We are thrilled to share award news for five of our titles.

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October Awards Roundup

11/13/2019

We are thrilled to share award news for nine of our titles.

Click "Read More" to see what awards these books have won or been nominated for in the month of October!

The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood and Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson are Ned Kelly Award Finalists

8/1/2019

We are excited to share that The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood and Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson are on the 2019 Ned Kelly Award Longlist!

The Ned Kelly Awards are sponsored by the Australian Crime Writer’s Association. They are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious prize, that honors both crime fiction and true crime writing. To see the full 2019 longlist, click here.

The Spotted Dog will be published by Poisoned Pen Press September 2019, and Trust Me When I Lie (Greenlight in the UK) will be published by Sourcebooks Landmark August 2019.

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A Dying Note is a 2019 Macavity Award Nominee

8/1/2019

We are happy to share that A Dying Note by Ann Parker is a 2019 Macavity Award Nominee! The title is nominated for the Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery.

The Macavity Awards are sponsored by Mystery Readers International and is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). The Macavity Awards are nominated by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal and friends of MRI.

The winners will be announced at opening ceremonies at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in Dallas, TX, October 31, 2019.

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Someone I Used to Know by Patty Blount is a 2019 Athena Award Winner

7/24/2019

We are excited to announce that Someone I Used to Know by Patty Blount is a 2019 Athena Award Winner!

The Athena Contest for Excellence in Published Young Adult and New Adult Fiction is sponsored by the Young Adult Special Interest Chapter of the Romance Writers of America (YARWA).

The contest is open to both young adult and new adult romance novels with romantic elements.

Someone I Used to Know has been awarded the Athena Award in both the YA Contemporary category AND the Best of the Best category.

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A Dying Note by Ann Parker is a 2019 Nashville Silver Falchion Finalist

7/24/2019

We are happy to share that A Dying Note by Ann Parker is a 2019 Nashville Silver Falchion Award finalist!

The Silver Falchion Award is sponsored by Killer Nashville, an organization and brand for all genres incorporating mystery, thriller or suspense.

The Silver Falchion Award recognizes the best stories from the previous year that utilize mystery, thriller or suspense. The judges for the award range from writers, book reviewers, librarians and academics. The focus of the award is on quality literature, instead of popularity. A Dying Note is a finalist in the Mystery Category.

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Gold Dust and A Dying Note are 2019 Will Rogers Medallion Finalists

7/18/2019

We are thrilled to share that Gold Dust by Reavis Wortham and A Dying Note by Ann Parker are 2019 Will Rogers Medallion finalists!

The Will Rogers Medallion Award was named after writer and cowboy entertainer Will Rogers, whose work reflected the traditions and values of the American cowboy. The Will Rogers Medallion award recognizes quality works that exemplify excellent content and production, and honors the Western heritage of the cowboy.

Gold Dust is a finalist in the Western Fiction category, and A Dying Note in the Western Maverick category.

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Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me is a 2020 Notable Children's Book!

6/21/2019

We are thrilled to share that Thinker by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Ehsan Abdollahi, is a 2020 Notable Children’s Book!

Thinker appears on the Association for Library Service to Children’s Notable Children’s Book List, under Poetry.

The Notable Children’s Book list is sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Every year, the Notable Children’s Book Committee selects the best of the best in children’s books. A “notable” children’s book is one that is “of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (through age 14) that reflect and encourage children’s interests in exemplary ways.”

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March 2020 Awards Roundup

Celebrating Sourcebooks' ALA Award Winners

We are thrilled to celebrate all of our authors and illustrators that have been recognized by the American Library Association.

She/He/They/Me by Robyn Ryle is a Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book

Thinker **by Eloise Greenfield, illus. by Ehsan Abdollahi and Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by Kath Shackleton, are 2020 ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s Books**

We Are Lost and Found **by Helene Dunbar and You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman are on YALSA’s 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults List**

A Danger to Herself and Others **by Alyssa Sheinmel and I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal are on YALSA’s 2020 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Lis**

You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman is on the 2020 Rainbow Book List

November Awards Roundup

October Awards Roundup

The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood and Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson are Ned Kelly Award Finalists

A Dying Note is a 2019 Macavity Award Nominee

Someone I Used to Know by Patty Blount is a 2019 Athena Award Winner

A Dying Note by Ann Parker is a 2019 Nashville Silver Falchion Finalist

Gold Dust and A Dying Note are 2019 Will Rogers Medallion Finalists

Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me is a 2020 Notable Children's Book!

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We are thrilled to celebrate all of our authors and illustrators that have been recognized by the American Library Association.

She/He/They/Me by Robyn Ryle is a Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book

Thinker by Eloise Greenfield, illus. by Ehsan Abdollahi and Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by Kath Shackleton, are 2020 ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s Books

We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar and You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman are on YALSA’s 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults List

A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel and I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal are on YALSA’s 2020 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Lis

You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman is on the 2020 Rainbow Book List

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Thinker **by Eloise Greenfield, illus. by Ehsan Abdollahi and Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by Kath Shackleton, are 2020 ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s Books**

We Are Lost and Found **by Helene Dunbar and You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman are on YALSA’s 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults List**

A Danger to Herself and Others **by Alyssa Sheinmel and I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal are on YALSA’s 2020 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Lis**