Friday, January 2, 2009

New YA Morris award

ALA announced a book award finalists' short list of five titles. The new Wm. Morris award for a new YA author will be awarded for the first time in January 2009.

  • A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce, published by Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic;
  • Graceling by Kristin Cashore, published by Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;
  • Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne, published by HarperTeen/Laura Geringer Books;
  • Madapple by Christina Meldrum, published by Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books; and
  • Me, the Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine, published by HarperTeen
An amazing list of the best kid's books of 2008 lists so many options--Great Fun!

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