YALSA announces 2011 award winners and selected booklists

The 2011 Alex Awards are as follows: * The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by D. C. Pierson, published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc. * Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray, published by Hyperion * Girl in Transhtion by Jean Kwok, published by Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. * The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni, published by Amy Einhorn Books, an imprint of G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of the Penguin Group * The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton, published by Thomas Dunne Books for Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press * The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel by Aimee Bender, published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. * The Radleys by Matt Haig, published by Free Press, a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc. * The Reapers Are the Angeh: A Novel by Alden Bell, published by Holt Paperbacks, a division of Henry Holt and Company, LLC * Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hatchette Book Group, Inc. * The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: A Novel by Helen Grant, published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, division of Random House.