Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award Winners

The Thumbs Up! Award was established in 1986 to recognize the excellence in, and to celebrate the uniqueness of, Young Adult Literature. A committee,...more

Winners

	Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn 3.94 avg rating — 9,297 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award for Honor book (2011)	My rating:
	Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 754 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2011)	My rating:
	After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick 4.25 avg rating — 1,848 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award for Honor book (2011)	My rating:
	Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly 4.06 avg rating — 8,247 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award for Honor book (2011)	My rating:
	Hate List by Jennifer Brown 4.09 avg rating — 7,121 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2010)	My rating:
	Fat Cat by Robin Brande (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 1,644 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award for Honor Book (2010)	My rating:
	The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins 4.52 avg rating — 734,779 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2009)	My rating:
	Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 2,197 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2008)	My rating:
	Rash by Pete Hautman 3.76 avg rating — 1,174 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2007)	My rating:
	Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar 3.90 avg rating — 2,773 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2006)	My rating:
	Airborn (Matt Cruse, #1) by Kenneth Oppel 4.18 avg rating — 5,972 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2005)	My rating:
	Pirates! by Celia Rees (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 4,532 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2004)	My rating:
	America by E.R. Frank 3.83 avg rating — 503 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2003)	My rating:
	You Don't Know Me by David Klass 3.83 avg rating — 2,779 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2002)	My rating:
	Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer 3.98 avg rating — 5,432 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2001)	My rating:
	Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger 3.73 avg rating — 3,077 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2000)	My rating:
	A Door Near Here by Heather Quarles 3.95 avg rating — 168 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1999)	My rating:
	Doing Time: Notes from the Undergrad by Rob Thomas 3.36 avg rating — 94 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1998)	My rating:
	Mr. Was by Pete Hautman 4.00 avg rating — 263 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1997)	My rating:
	The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle 4.32 avg rating — 1,004 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1996)	My rating:
	The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple 3.55 avg rating — 297 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1995)	My rating:
	Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff 3.61 avg rating — 3,002 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1994)	My rating:
	Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers 3.64 avg rating — 430 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1993)	My rating:
	Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories by Chris Crutcher 3.80 avg rating — 838 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1992)	My rating:
	The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor 4.08 avg rating — 990 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1991)	My rating:
	Phoenix Rising: Or How to Survive Your Life by Cynthia D. Grant 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1990)	My rating:
	Sex Education by Jenny Davis 3.85 avg rating — 52 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1989)	My rating:
	Year of the Gopher by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1988)	My rating:
	The Flight of the Cassowary by John Levert 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1987)	My rating: