Lambda Laurels
March 15, 2008The finalists for the 20th annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced yesterday. Here are the five books vying for the award in the Children’s/Young Adult category:
- Freak Show by James St. James (Dutton) — also a finalist in the Gay Debut Fiction category
- Hero by Perry Moore (Hyperion)
- Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)
- Saints of Augustine by P.E. Ryan (HarperTeen)
- Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
In addition, Brent Hartinger’s young adult novel Split Screen (HarperCollins) is a finalist in the Bisexual category, and the Lesbian Debut Fiction includes Lu Vickers’ Breathing Underwater (Alyson).
Last year was particularly good year for LGBTQ literature for teens, so I can only imagine how hard it was for the judges to narrow the list down to just five titles in this category. It’ll be even harder for them to choose just one title from the list above.
I enjoyed nearly every book on this list but I’m really pulling for SOMEDAY THIS PAIN, which blew me away.