The Atlantic Announces its Picks for "The Y.A./Middle-Grade Book Awards, 2012 Edition."
December 13, 2012
The Atlantic has announced its picks for "The Y.A./Middle-Grade Book Awards, 2012 Edition." Altogether, thirty three titles were honored on this list. A few titles, such as Fever by Lauren DeStefano and The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder, received honorable mentions.
"It was a year of countless great books in the categories of young adult and middle-grade fiction and nonfiction, buoyed not only by content but by that all-important publishing mark of sales. 'The children’s and Y.A. category grew by more than 196 percent in August,' according to an Association of American Publishers report, outpacing adult literature sales by leaps and bounds. But even prior to that news there were signs this was shaping up to be an unprecedented year of Y.A., what with growing numbers of adults reading the books (helped along by the popularity of The Hunger Games, of course) and growing numbers of people writing about that trend (including here, in this column)."