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THE 2005 ALEX AWARDS

During National Library Week, which took place April 10-16, 2005, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) --- a division of the American Library Association (ALA) --- announced this year's winners of the Alex Awards.

The Alex Awards were created to recognize that many teens enjoy and often prefer books written for adults, and to assist librarians in recommending adult books that appeal to teens. The award is named in honor of the late Margaret Alexander Edwards. Nicknamed "Alex," this young adult specialist at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland firmly believed that adult books are as beneficial toward enhancing and enriching the minds of young adults as designated "teen books" are.

The winning titles are as follows:

CANDY FREAK: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by Steve Almond
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN: 1565124219
May 2004

SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
by Lynne Cox
Knopf
ISBN: 0375415076
January 2004

DONORBOY
by Brendan Halpin
Random House
ISBN: 1400062772
August 2004

SHADOW DIVERS: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
by Robert Kurson
Random House
ISBN: 0375760989
June 2004

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THE WORK OF WOLVES
by Kent Meyers
Harcourt
ISBN: 0151010579
June 2004

TRUTH & BEAUTY: A Friendship
by Ann Patchett
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060572159
May 2004

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MY SISTER'S KEEPER
by Jodi Picoult
Atria
ISBN: 0743454537
April 2004

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THINNER THAN THOU
by Kit Reed
Tom Doherty Associates
ISBN: 0765307626
June 2004

PROJECT X
by Jim Shepard
Knopf
ISBN: 140004071X
January 2004

RATS: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Robert Sullivan
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 1582343853
April 2004

For more information about the Alex Awards, click here.