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And the 2010 Printz Award goes to…Going Bovine by Libba Bray.

Yeah, the Libba Bray our very own Amber featured in a recent YAuthorStalker post.  (Yay, Amber!)  Yeah, also the Libba Bray featured in this particular Happy Friday post where I kinda talked a bit of smack about how her vid was cool but didn’t really make me want to read her Going Bovine book.  Well, the Printz Award (the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults, to be exact) is pretty much like one of the most prestigious YA Awards out there.  Looks as if someone should cut back on the smack and take a look at the book.  Will do, will do.  You should read it, too!  (Ok, enough with the rhyming…)

According to its catalog record Going Bovine, summarized, is as follows:  Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob’s (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

Did someone say death-obsessed video gaming dwarf?  What more can one hope for in a book?  Check it out.

Four Printz Honor Books were also named:

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Punkzilla by Adam Rapp

Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

A sincere congrats to Libba Bray and her well deserved success!  Kinda bummed Adam Rapp didn’t win, though, because I’m a HUGE fan.  Plus, I’ve never talked smack about him.

-Christie

So where can you find all that YAuthor information? RIGHT HERE because it’s YAuthor Stalking Tuesday! Learn about your favorite authors, have a chat with them and then share your YAuthor adventures. This week is the snarky and fantastic Libba Bray!

Author: Libba Bray
Books: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and A Sweet Far Thing), Going Bovine, The Restless Dead, Up All Night, 21 Proms, and Vacations from Hell.
Email: libba_bray@livejournal.com
Website: http://www.libbabray.com/
Blog: http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LIBBABRAY
Bio (probably my favorite Author Bio Ever): http://www.libbabray.com/bio.html
Awards: 2007 IOWA HIGH SCHOOL BOOK AWARD!!! I’m sure she has won lots of other awards that aren’t nearly as local.

Amber’s Libba Bray Adventure:
Libba Bray visited the Iowa City Public Library in October 2007 while in-town for the Iowa Library Association’s conference (where she received the Iowa High School Book Award!). I had not read any of her books, but I went to see her anyway because I could tell she was awesome. Libba answered lots of questions and read passages of A Sweet Far Thing off her laptop (which was then unreleased) which blew my mind thinking that her entire book was just sitting there as a Word document—gahhh I write more than a five page paper in Word and my eyes start to bleeeeeeeed. Then I got into the really long line to have my free poster signed (since I didn’t have any of her books), and asked her to make it out to “Information Ninjas” –a term my library friend had been using lately. Well, this is Libba Bray, right? So she took that and exploded it, writing on and on about about how in awe she was of our mad ninja information-gathering skills, etc etc. “OMG I heart Libba Bray!” says me. So I went out and bought her book the next day and took it to the ILA conference so she could sign that for me, too. I don’t have any pictures to prove it, but I did find this awesome photo of a USB drive that looks like a Shuriken throwing star!–totally something an Information Ninja would use.

Have you met Libba Bray? Do you have a YAuthor Adventure to share? Email Amber and we might post it on a YAuthor Stalking Tuesday!

I’m putting this vid up because I’m thinking maybe it will make you want to read Going Bovine by the ever popular YA author Libba Bray.

To be honest, it doesn’t really make me want to read the book, but it does kinda make me want be a YA author when I grow up. 

Where else are you going to get paid for choking on Pixy Stix dust? Happy Friday!

-Christie