National Book Award News Flash

Sara Zarr says on a recent blog post that the five finalists for the 2010 National Book Award for Young People's Fiction will be announced sometime tomorrow!!  Actually, it's noon EST.  The judges are all authors who write for young people:  Laban Carrick Hill, Kelly Link, Tor Seidler, Hope Anita Smith, and Sara Zarr.

and the finalists are ...

Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown & Co.)

Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
(Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

Laura McNeal, Dark Water (Alfred A. Knopf)

Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

 

Jennifer Buehler