The Margaret A. Edwards Winners
YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association a division of the American Library Association annually selects an author who has, through his or her writing made an enduring contribution to young adult literature. This award is sponsored by School Library Journal. Anyone wanting to be well versed in the best of writing for young adults over the history of the genre should be familiar with the Margaret A. Edwards Award winners.

• Blume, Judy Forever.
• Cormier, Robert. After the First Death, The Chocolate War, and I Am the Cheese
• Crutcher, Chris Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Athletic Shorts, Chinese Handcuffs, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, Stotan! and Running Loose.
• Duncan, Lois Gallows Hill, Don’t Look Behind You, The Third Eye, Killing Mr. Griffin, and Locked in Time.
• Garden, Nancy. Annie on My Mind
• Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders, That Was Then This Is Now, Rumble Fish, and Tex
• Kerr, M.E. Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, Gentlehands, Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel and Night Kites
• Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Beginning Place.
• L'Engle, Madeleine. Austin Family Series ((1) Meet the Austins, (2) Moon by Night, (3) Young Unicorns, (4) Ring of Endless Light, (5) Troubling a Star) and the Time Fantasy Series (1) Wrinkle in Time, (2) Wind in the Door, (3) Swiftly Tilting Planet, (4) Many Waters, (5) An Acceptable Time)
• Lipsyte, Robert. The Contender, The Brave, The Chief, and One Fat Summer.
• McCaffrey, Ann. Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, The Ship Who Sang, Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums.
• Myers, Walter Dean. Hoops, Motown & Didi, Fallen Angels, and Scorpions
• Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet, Woodsong, Winter Room, The Crossing, Canyons, and Dancing Carl.
• Peck, Richard. 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
• Voigt, Cynthia. 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
• Zindel, Paul. 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.

Writers to Watch
Some recent authors that are frequently talked about by readers of young adult fiction are:

• Alex Flinn. Breathing Underwater. Nothing to Lose.
• Nancy Werlin. Double Helix.
• Margaret Peterson Haddix. Among the Hidden.
• Edith Pattou. East.
• Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson. Target.
• Brent Hartinger. Last Chance Texaco.
• Julie Ann Peters. Luna. Define Normal.
• Kathe Koja. Buddha Boy.
• David Lubar. Hidden Talents. Flip.
• Hilari Bell. A Matter of Profit. The Goblin Wood.
• Tamora Pierce. Trickster’s Choice.
• Pete Hautman Sweet-Blood.
• Trueman, Terry. Inside Out.
• Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld. A Heart Divided.
• Angela Johnson. The First Part Last.

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