О премии

Премия "Алекс" (Alex Awards) - ежегодная американская литературная награда за «значительный вклад в литературу для молодёжи».

Премия вручается с 1998 года и с 2002 года находится в ведении ассоциации библиотечного обслуживания молодежи (YALSA) и отдела американской библиотечной ассоциации (ALA).

Спонсором премии является фонд Маргарет Александр Эдвардс (1902 – 1988) и журнал Booklist.
Маргарет Эдвардс - известный педагог и библиотекарь, пионер библиотечного обслуживания молодежи, много лет проработавшая в библиотеке Еноха Пратта (Enoch Pratt) в Балтиморе и посвятившая всю свою жизнь работе с подростками. О своей работе она написала в книге "Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts". На протяжении многих лет Маргарет Эдвардс служила вдохновением для многих библиотекарей, работающих с молодежью.
Друзья и коллеги называли Маргарет Эдвардс именем Алекс. Это имя и носит данная премия.

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Награда Алекс присуждается сразу десяти книгам, написанным "для взрослых, но имеющих особую изюминку для молодых людей в возрасте от 12 до 18 лет".

Победители выбираются из публикаций предыдущего года.

На фото - Маргарет Эдвардс, 1922 год.

Жанры: Книги для подростков, Зарубежная литература, Современная зарубежная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1998 г. Последнее вручение: 2025 г. Официальный сайт: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/alex-awards

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27 января 2025 г. — победители

Алекс
Опасная игра бабули. Руководство по раскрытию собственного убийства
Кристен Перрин 4.1
Старая добрая Англия, 1965 год. Ярмарочная гадалка предсказывает шестнадцатилетней Фрэнсис Адамс ужасающее будущее: однажды девушку убьют… С тех пор всю свою жизнь та посвящает расследованию убийства, которое еще не произошло. Никто не принимал опасения Фрэнсис в серьез, пока, шестьдесят лет спустя, ее труп не находят в библиотеке.

Наши дни. Энни Адамс приглашают в Грейвсдаун-холл - обширное загородное поместье ее эксцентричной двоюродной бабушки Фрэнсис. Но когда девушка прибывает в причудливую деревушку Касл-Нолл, старушка уже мертва. И по условиям завещания все ее огромное состояние, а также поместье, получит тот, кто раскроет это убийство. Расследование осложняется привычкой Фрэнсис собирать на всех компромат. Кажется, что у каждого милого и чудаковатого местного жителя имелся мотив убить ее.

Вместе с другим наследником Энни оказывается втянута в крайне опасную игру. И чем ближе разгадка, тем больше опасений, что вместо Грейвсдаун-холла она унаследует печальную судьбу своей бабушки…
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Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability
Melissa Blake 0.0
Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.

In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake’s work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies, all taken during a lovely vacation in the Big

I wanted desperately to clap back at these vile trolls in a way that would make a statement, not only about how our society views disabilities, but also about the toxicity of our strict and unrealistic beauty standards. Of course I knew that posting those selfies wasn't going to erase the nasty names I'd been called and, the chances were, they would never even see my tweet, but that didn't matter. I wasn't doing it for them; I was doing it for me and every single disabled person who has been bullied before, online and in real life. When people mock how I look, they're not just insulting me. They're insulting all disabled people. We're constantly told that we're repulsive and ugly and not good enough to be seen. This was me pushing back against that toxic, ableist narrative.

For the first time, I felt like I was doing something empowering, taking back my power and changing the story.


Her tweet went viral, attracting worldwide media attention and interviews with the BBC, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, PEOPLE magazine, Good Morning America and E! News.

Now, in her manifesto, Beautiful People, Blake shares her truths about disability, writing about (among other things): Blake also tells the stories of some of the heroes of the disability rights movement in America, in doing so rescuing their incredible achievements from near total obscurity. Highlighting other disabled activists and influencers, Blake’s work is the calling card of a powerful voice—one that has sparked new, different, better conversations about disability.
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Ведьмин камень
Генри Нефф 3.2
Познакомьтесь с Лазло, восьмисотлетним демоном и самым непродуктивным Хранителем проклятий в Аду. Из своего офиса в Мидтауне он следит за проклятием Дрейкфорда, которое связывает одну жалкую семейку с таинственным черным монолитом. К сожалению, в его подразделении сменилось руководство, а рейтинги Лазло столь низки, что ему дается шесть дней на то, чтобы прийти в себя, иначе он будет растоплен и возвращен в Первозданное состояние.

Знакомьтесь, Мэгги Дрейкфорд, девятнадцатилетняя носительница Проклятия. Будущее кажется безнадежным, пока однажды октябрьским вечером Лазло не появляется на ферме Дрейкфордов и не сообщает им, что у них есть шесть дней — и только шесть дней, — чтобы разрушить чары, прежде чем они станут постоянными. Может ли Мэгги доверять бойкому и красивому Лазло? Конечно, нет. Но она также не может упустить возможность спасти свою семью, даже если это означает, что у нее будет демон в качестве проводника…
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Medea
Rosie Hewlett 4.0
Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because of a unique and dangerous witchcraft.

But when a dashing young hero, Jason, arrives to claim the famed Golden Fleece that her father fiercely protects, Medea sees her opportunity for escape. Her offer to help Jason overcome the trials set by her father sets in motion a journey that will test every ounce of her strength, magic and loyalty; a journey that will see her battle monsters, dethrone kings and fall in love.

But when faced with the ultimate betrayal, Medea is driven to an act of desperation so brutal it rips apart the lives of everyone involved...
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I Was a Teenage Slasher
Стивен Грэм Джонс 4.0
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
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I Feel Awful, Thanks
Lara Pickle 0.0
A lushly illustrated debut graphic novel that explores the hardfought journey of self-acceptance in a complex world of swirling emotions and powerful potions.

Joana has dragons inside her. Can she tame them before they burn her life down?

Joana is a young witch who secured her dream job with a coven in London, her favorite city, where she can dedicate herself to creating potions, her favorite activity! However, she will soon discover the reality of city life is not so idyllic. Finding a flat is an ordeal, her “dream job” is stressful, and she’s totally alone. Little by little, she makes her place, but fatigue, sadness, and doubts threaten to topple her hard-earned success . . . until she starts talking to a professional who helps her realize in order to take care of herself, she must know herself.
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
Ф. Джели Кларк 3.5
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.

Nor do they have tails.

But they are most assuredly dead.

Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Djèlí Clark introduces a brand-new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins.

Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins―resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories―have only three unbreakable vows.

First, the contract must be just. That’s above Eveen’s pay grade.

Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. Eveen’s a professional. She’s never missed her mark.

The third and the once you accept a job, you must carry it out. And if you stray? A final death would be a mercy. When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the city upside down, Eveen’s newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isn’t supposed to remember and a vow she can’t forget.
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Daughters of Shandong
Eve J. Chung 5.0
An instant USA Today Bestseller!

A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story

Daughters are the Ang family’s curse.

In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di, who is just a year younger, learns to hide in plain sight, and their mother—abused by the family for failing to birth a boy—finds her own small acts of rebellion in the kitchen. As the Communist army closes in on their town, the rest of the prosperous household flees, leaving behind the girls and their mother because they view them as useless mouths to feed.

Without an Ang male to punish, the land-seizing cadres choose Hai, as the eldest child, to stand trial for her family’s crimes. She barely survives their brutality. Realizing the worst is yet to come, the women plan their escape. Starving and penniless but resourceful, they forge travel permits and embark on a thousand-mile journey to confront the family that abandoned them.

From the countryside to the bustling city of Qingdao, and onward to British Hong Kong and eventually Taiwan, they witness the changing tide of a nation and the plight of multitudes caught in the wake of revolution. But with the loss of their home and the life they’ve known also comes new freedom—to take hold of their fate, to shake free of the bonds of their gender, and to claim their own story.

Told in assured, evocative prose, with impeccably drawn characters, Daughters of Shandong is a hopeful, powerful story about the resilience of women in war; the enduring love between mothers, daughters, and sisters; and the sacrifices made to lift up future generations.
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Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Дэвид Уокер, Marcus Kwame Anderson 0.0
A thrilling graphic novel re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that follows Jim, an enslaved man on a journey towards freedom, and his sidekick, Huck, in the antebellum South

Commonly regarded as one of the great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has captured the hearts and imaginations of readers since 1885. But since its publication critics have rightfully condemned Mark Twain’s troubling portrayal of Black Americans as stereotypes and caricatures, with contemporary fans searching for a modern update to this iconic tale.

Big Jim and the White Boy is a radical retelling of this American classic, centering the experiences of Jim, an enslaved Black man in search of his kidnapped wife and children, along with his cheeky sidekick, Huckleberry Finn. Jim and Huck’s high-stakes adventures take them on an epic voyage across the antebellum South and Midwest, through Confederate war camps and runaway safe houses, into Old West standoffs, and on the road as covert Underground Railroad agents. Intertwined with the story of Jim and Huck are the stories of Jim’s descendants in the 1930s, 1980s, and 2020s, making this a multi-generational family epic as well as an adventure story.
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