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WELCOME TO ALEX AWARD BOOKS

Each year, The American Library Association (ALA), the oldest and largest library association in the world, honors the best books published that year.

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.

. The semi-autobiographical vignettes of this new work, originally serialized in Salon, follow the same basic format as the strip: blocks of enthusiastic first-person commentary at the top of each panel, squiggly, childlike-but stylized-drawings and dizzy word-balloon dialogue between the characters.

"In the last few pages, she demonstrates the technique used for the original exercise and encourages readers to draw from their own experiences. This is an amazing collection, and those who connect with it will come away with a deep appreciation for Barry." - Jody Sharp, Harford County Public Library, MD

Amateur astronomers are the heroes of this latest opus from one of the country's best-known and most prolific science writers. Ferris (Coming of Age in the Milky Way) has a special place in his heart for these nonprofessionals who gaze into space out of wonderment and end up making discoveries about comets, the moon and the planets that change our understanding of the galaxy.

"Appendixes provide useful tips and seasonal star maps (Northern Hemisphere only) for the beginning observer, facts and figures about various celestial bodies, and recommendations for further reading. Lyrical and engrossing, this book is highly recommended for public and academic libraries." - Nancy R. Curtis, Univ. of Maine Lib., Orono

"Malloy can't quite decide if this is a story about coming to terms with one's sexual orientation or one about working through a troubled father/son relationship, and consequently neither works particularly well. Recommended only for comprehensive fiction collections." - Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle

"The complicated, often traumatic limbo between childhood and adulthood rings so true from the beginning to the end of this debut novel that you will want everyone you still talk to from high school to read it. As for Jeremy, all we can hope is that things get easier by the time he graduates." - Emily Russin