The winners of the 2012 California Book Awards...

...have been announced.

The YA gold medal winner is: 

Morgan Matson, for Second Chance Summer.

The YA silver medal winner is: 

Marissa Moss, for A Soldier’s Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero.

The other YA fiction finalists are: 

Carrie Arcos, for Out of Reach.

Robin LaFevers, for Grave Mercy. 

Lemony Snicket, for Who Could That Be at This Hour? All the Wrong Questions, Book One.

Click on through for the rest of the winners and finalists!