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The Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
The Evergreen Young Adult Book Award is sponsored by WASHYARG: Washington Young Adult Review Group.
Voters for this award must be in grades 7 - 12.
Each voter must read two or more titles and cast only one vote per ballot.
Ballots are to be turned in to librarians March 1 - 15th.
The 2009 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award goes to:
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
On May 18 an asteroid hit the moon. It wasn’t a surprise. We all knew
it was going to happen. It had been talked about for weeks. Everyone was excited
and but 9:30 that night all our neighbors where out in their yards to watch
it happen. It was like a big block party, and people cheered when it happened—but
not for long.
There had been some kind of a miscalculation. Even the astronomers were surprised when the impact pushed the moon out of its orbit. They could explain what had happened. I know I can’t. But what I can say is that after the collision the moon was tilted wrong, and it was smack in the middle of the sky, and it was way too large.
At first people couldn’t believe it, and then everything started to go wrong. The cell phones went out, the Internet stopped working. No CNN, just local television and mostly reports on the radio. And things just kept getting worse.
My name is Miranda. I’m sixteen and these are my diary entrees about what happened after that asteroid hit the moon.
My brother Matt says we are living through a special time in history. A time
when we can all be heroes. Mrs. Nesbitt, or next-door neighbor, says people
will rise to the occasion.
My younger brother Jonny hopes they will cancel school for the rest of the
year. Mom is worried we won’t have enough food to last until things get
better.
What I know for sure is that right after the impact giant waves destroyed much of the coast including big cities like New York, Boston, Miami, and places like Cape Cod and Hawaii. Terrible storms cut the power, and earthquakes hit places that had never had them before. Then volcanoes started to erupt all over the world filling the sky with clouds and cutting out the sun. Now the scientists are warning about drought and record cold temperatures. Even our cat Horton has disappeared.
With the numbers of the dead rising, I wonder if things will never be normal
again? Or is life as we knew it just a memory?
Runners Up:
Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Last Updated: April 8, 2009