Margaret Edwards Award
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The Margaret A. Edwards Award is given annually to an author of young adult literature. The criteria on which the award is judged include the quality and popularity of the author's work, and its ability to contribute to the education and personal growth of its young adult readers.
First presented in 1988, the award is administered by YALSA and is sponsored by the School Library Journal.
[edit] Award Winners
- 2008: Orson Scott Card for Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
- 2007: Lois Lowry for The Giver
- 2006: Jacqueline Woodson for I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Lena, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, If You Come Softly, and Miracle's Boys
- 2005: Francesca Lia Block for Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-Bop
- 2004: Ursula K. Le Guin for A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Beginning Place
- 2003: Nancy Garden for Annie on My Mind
- 2002: Paul Zindel for The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, The Pigman & Me, My Darling, My Hamburger, and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds: A Drama in Two Acts
- 2001: Robert Lipsyte for The Contender, The Brave, The Chief, and One Fat Summer
- 2000: Chris Crutcher for Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Athletic Shorts, Chinese Handcuffs, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, Stotan!, and Running Loose
- 1999: Anne McCaffrey for Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, The Ship Who Sang, Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums
- 1998: Madeleine L'Engle for the Austin Family Series, which includes Meet the Austins and A Ring of Endless Light and the Time Fantasy Series, which includes A Wrinkle In Time and A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- 1997: Gary Paulsen for Hatchet, Woodsong, The Winter Room, The Crossing, Canyons, and Dancing Carl
- 1996: Judy Blume for Forever
- 1995: Cynthia Voigt for Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Solitary Blue, Building Blocks, The Runner, Jackaroo, and Izzy, Willy-Nilly
- 1994: Walter Dean Myers for Hoops, Motown & Didi, Fallen Angels, and Scorpions
- 1993: M.E. Kerr for Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, Gentlehands, Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel, and Night Kites
- 1992: Lois Duncan for her entire body of work
- 1991: Robert Cormier for After the First Death, The Chocolate War, and I Am the Cheese
- 1990: Richard Peck for Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Ghost Belonged to Me, Ghosts I Have Been, Remembering the Good Times, and Secrets of the Shopping Mall
- 1989: No award was given this year
- 1988: S.E. Hinton for The Outsiders, That Was Then This Is Now, Rumble Fish, and Tex
