| The Author Corner |  revised 3-3-07 mk

The MAE Award is given to an author whose books are popular with teenagers.  It is for lifetime achievement.  The one or more titles that are honored must be at least five years old.  The award is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by School Library Journal.

1988 S.E. Hinton 1995 Cynthia Voigt 2002 Paul Zindel
1989 No Award Given 1996 Judy Blume 2003 Nancy Garden
1990 Richard Peck 1997 Gary Paulsen 2004 Ursula K. LeGuin
1991 Robert Cormier 1998 Madeleine L’Engle 2005 Francesca Lia Block
1992 Lois Duncan 1999 Anne McCaffrey 2006 Jacqueline Woodson
1993 M.E. Kerr 2000 Chris Crutcher 2007 Lois Lowry
1994 Walter Dean Myers 2001 Robert Lipsyte  
Students in grades 7-12 are welcome to use this site to find good books to read.  Come again!
  This site was created by Mona Kerby, an associate professor at McDaniel College, formerly Western Maryland College, and resides on the server at Carroll County Public Library in Westminster, Maryland.  This is a non-profit project. 
 
Acknowledgments
 The Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust awarded a grant to purchase equipment and to train undergraduate and graduate students to work with teenagers and books.  Pages are designed and maintained using Macromedia Dreamweaver and Paint Shop Pro.  Book covers are scanned using Adobe PhotoShop and are copyrighted by the various publishers and by individual artists.
The students who have helped with this site are:  Margaret Bell, Christy-Ann Brown, Robin Cousins, Alexis Gerard, John McDonald, Kelly Murray, Lisa Norris, Pat Oettel, Marge Runkle, Barbara Sarangoulis, Lois Szymanski, Jennifer Whalen.