Heartbreak Tennis by Amelia Elizabeth Walden

It is named in honor of Ted Hipple, the first and long-time ALAN Executive Secretary, who died on November 25, 2004. The Ted Hipple Service Award is given each year to the individual who has contributed to the ALAN organization.

1987 Katherine Paterson, author, and Alleen Pace Nilsen.

2003 Norma Fox Mazer, author and Harry Mazer, author (co-winners).

2006 Virginia Monseau, professor, and Marc Aronson, author/editor.

Each year, an honoree is chosen by the Executive Board and receives the ALAN Award at the annual ALAN breakfast, which is held early morning Saturday during the NCTE Convention. The recipient may be a publisher, author, librarian, scholar, editor, or servant to the organization. In addition, in 2000 ALAN created the Hipple Award in honor of longtime Executive Secretary Ted Hipple, whose service led to the creation of the award for dedicated service to the organization.Īlmost from its inception, ALAN has given the ALAN Award to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature.

ALAN, which is self-governing, holds its annual meetings during the NCTE annual convention in November and also publishes The ALAN Review.Īlmost from its inception, ALAN has given the ALAN award to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature. Founded in November 1973, ALAN is made up of teachers, authors, librarians, publishers, teacher-educators and their students, and others who are particularly interested in the area of young adult literature. ALAN, The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents is a teachers organization in the United States, an independent assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Heartbreak Tennis by Amelia Elizabeth Walden