The Last Summer of the Death Warriors has received the 2011 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award. The award is presented by the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The award is given to a young adult title demonstrating “a positive approach to life, widespread teen appeal, and literary merit.” I am honored and humbled to receive this award. Here are the 2011 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalists:
-After Ever After by Jordan Sonneblick
-I Will Save You by Matt de la Pena
-Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick
-Wolves, Boys and Other Things that Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler
 We will all appear on Monday November 21, 2011 at 2011 ALAN Workshop in Chicago Illinois.
