Suttons Bay author Lynne Rae Perkins has won the prestigious Newbery Medal for children's literature for her novel Criss Cross, says the Freep.

The novel consists of a series of poems, vignettes and illustrations about a group of small-town teenagers. The award committee chair, Barbara Barstow, said of the book "Writing in a wry, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Perkins deftly captures the tentativeness and incompleteness of adolescence," .

That's an honor for Perkins--and for Leelanau County. Congratulations!