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Maud Hart Lovelace Award
 
Maud Hart Lovelace was a beloved Minnesota author born in Mankato at the end of the 19th century.  Her Betsy and Tacy series began in 1940 and continued with a new book almost every year until 1955.  The Minnesota Youth Reading Awards honors Maud Hart Lovelace by creating a children's book award whose annual recipient is chosen  specifically by children.
 
Every year, Minnesota children cast a vote for their favorite book from a list of titles nominated for the Maud Hart Lovelace Award.  In order to be eligible to vote, children must have either read or listened to at least three books from the nominees list.  Voting takes place during the month of March with the winner being announced on the actual birthdate of Maud Hart Lovelace (April 25).
 
Selected by the MHL Selection Comittee, the nomination criteria includes :
  • Author must live in North America
  • Copyright must have been in the last 5 years
  • Book must be available in paperback by Feb 1 of the selection year
  • Book must be fiction and may not be a picture book
Nominees for the 2010-2011 MHL Award!

  • If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
  • Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Found by Margaret Haddix
  • Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
  • Alabama Moon by Watt Key
  • Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
  • How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
  • All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall
  • Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
  • Saturday Night Dirt by Will Weaver
  • Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
Check out these past MHL Award Winners!
  • 2010 - I'd Tell You I Love You, but then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
  • 2009 - Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
  • 2008 - Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
  • 2007 - Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
  • 2006 - Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
  • 2005 - Zach's Lie by Roland Smith
  • 2004 - Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson
  • 2003 - Dovey Coe by Frances O'Roarke Dowell