Children’s Writing Web Journal

The finalists for this years National Book Awards were announced this morning in Chicago.  The winners will be announced on November 19.

Here are the finalists in the Young People’s Literature division:

Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Simon & Schuster)
The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt (Atheneum)
What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell,  (Scholastic)
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart  (Hyperion)
The Spectacular Now, Tim Tharp  (Alfred A. Knopf)

For more details, visit http://www.nationalbook.org/

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