Lambda Awards

Now in their twenty-sixth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2013. - See more at: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/06/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/#sthash.YVzwQwY2.dpuf

Now in their twenty-sixth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2013. - See more at: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/06/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/#sthash.YVzwQwY2.dpuf

Now in their twenty-sixth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2013. - See more at: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/06/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/#sthash.YVzwQwY2.dpuf

Now in their twenty-sixth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2013. - See more at: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/06/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/#sthash.YVzwQwY2.dpuf

Now in their twenty-sixth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2013.
More than 90 literary professionals, including booksellers, book reviewers, librarians, authors, and previous Lammy winners and finalists volunteered countless hours of reading, critical thinking, and invigorating discussion to select the finalists in 24 categories. 


Announced June 2, 2014

LGBT CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT

• Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster, Inc./ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Boy In Box, Christopher R. Michael, Hubbub Publishing
• Girls I’ve Run Away With, Rhiannon Argo, Moonshine Press
• If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan, Algonquin Books
• Openly Straight, Bill Konigsberg, Arthur A. Levine Books
• Rapture Practice, Aaron Hartzler, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Secret City, Julia Watts, Bella Books
• The Secret Ingredient, Stewart Lewis- Author, Rebecca Short-Editor, Delacorte Press (Penguin/Random House)
• The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Arthur A. Levine Books
• Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• What Makes a Baby, Cory Silverberg and illustrated by Fiona Smyth, Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square

- See more at: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists/#sthash.4rSskUQ9.dpuf

 LGBT CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT

•     Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster, Inc./ Simon & Schuster Books  for Young Readers
•     Boy In Box, Christopher R. Michael, Hubbub Publishing
•     Girls I’ve Run Away With, Rhiannon Argo, Moonshine Press
•     If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan, Algonquin Books
•     Openly Straight, Bill Konigsberg, Arthur A. Levine Books
•     Rapture Practice, Aaron Hartzler, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
•     Secret City, Julia Watts, Bella Books
•     The Secret Ingredient, Stewart Lewis- Author, Rebecca Short-Editor, Delacorte Press (Penguin/Random House)
•     The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Arthur A. Levine Books
•     Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
•     What Makes a Baby, Cory Silverberg and illustrated by Fiona Smyth, Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square

More than 90 literary professionals, including booksellers, book reviewers, librarians, authors, and previous Lammy winners and finalists volunteered countless hours of reading, critical thinking, and invigorating discussion to select the finalists in 24 categories. - See more at: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/06/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/#sthash.YVzwQwY2.dpuf

Now in their twenty-sixth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2013. - See more at: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/06/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/#sthash.YVzwQwY2.dpuf

 

http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/2014/03/the-2014-lambda-literary-award-finalists.html ( I love this blog. It discusses a lot of youth book challenges in schools and libraries.)