2010 Youth Media Awards and Honors on Playaway - It was another exciting year for the Youth Media Awards as a room full of cheering fans of children’s and young adult titles collected together to celebrate the importance of literature for youth and honor the most noteworthy additions from the year prior.  With two Newbery Honors and three Odyssey Award Honor titles on Playaway, you’ll want to make sure your library has these titles available in your children and YA collections.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly - Kelly’s debut novel, set in early 20th century Texas, features Callie, a young teen whose non-traditional passions and interests complicate her transition to womanhood. While her mother is equipping her with wifely talents - cooking and needlepoint - Callie finds fulfillment in the outdoors, examining different plant specimens and collecting exotic stones. Her grandfather, a sort of naturalist, nurtures her interest despite her mother’s growing concern over Callie’s future. As she comes into her own, Callie understands more clearly the conflict between her dream of becoming a scientist and society’s expectations of her.
In the Belly of the Bloodhound by L.A. Meyer - When listeners left her last, Jacky was on the run with a reward for her capture. Taking sanctuary in her old Boston boarding school, our swashbuckler heroine determines to make herself a “lady” and trade in her trousers for a proper skirt. But not for long! Jacky is back on her sea legs after her classmates and friends are kidnapped and hidden on a slave ship. Katherine Kellgren’s reading will not disappoint as the listener embarks on another one of Jacky’s adventures.
Other 2010 award-winning and honor book titles on Playaway include:
Newbery Honor & Sibert Honor

Claudette Colvin -
Twice Toward Justice
Phillip Hoose

Sibert Medal

Almost Astronauts: 13
Women Who Dared to Dream
Tanya Lee Stone

 Odyssey Award Honor

Peace, Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson
Odyssey Award Honor

We are the Ship
Kadir Nelson		 Schneider Family Book Award

Anything But Typical
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Author Spotlight:
Walter Dean Myers was awarded the first Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement for his “significant and lasting literary contribution” to children and young adult literature. | Jim Murphy was recognized for his contributions to YA lit with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement. | Lois Lowry was elected to deliver the 2011 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture - an honor given to an author, critic, teacher or other industry leader in the world of children’s literature. Each year, the Arbuthnot honoree prepares a paper and a lecture that is expected to make a significant contribution to the field.