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January 24, 2006

2006 Alex Awards

The 2006 Alex Awards were announced on Monday, January 23 at the ALA mid-winter convention. The Alex Awards honor ten adult books that will appeal to teen readers.

Judy Fong Bates. Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
Su-Jen and her parents settle uneasily into their new life in a town where they are the only Chinese family, isolated by language and long hours at the diner they own. Things change when Lee-Kung, Su-Jen's half-brother, arrives. He works in the kitchen and smolders under the responsibilities he must carry as the dutiful son, forming an alliance with his mother, a beautiful, bitter stepmother. Su-Jen's father, one of the lo wa kew, the "old timers" generation, works continually for a better future and strives to save face at all costs.