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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Nataional Book Award Finalists!

The National Book Awards Finalists for Young People's Literature are in, and they are...



Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith (Henry Holt)

Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

David Small, Stitches (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)

Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

Congratulations to everyone, and especially to Rita Williams-Garcia, our featured author from February. Hooooray!!


11 comments:

  1. Congrats to the Finalists and thanks to the hardworking committee!

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  2. Oh, how exciting!!!! Congrats to the finalists (and esp to friend Laini! Yay!).

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  3. Congrats, kudos, and amen to the variety!

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  4. I've read only one of these (Claudette Colvin), so all the rest are on my tbr list. They all sound fantastic.
    Congrats to the Finalists!
    And thanks for posting about this :)

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  5. Congrats to all of the finalists. The books all look really good.

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  6. Oh I heard about this. HUGE congrats to everyone! I'm sticking all of these on my upcoming to read list.

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  7. Such wonderful books! Congrats to all!

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  8. The variety is exciting. I am thrilled to see Lips Touch there. What an impressive book. Laini is an amazing talent.

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