National Book Award Finalists Announced

The nominees for Young People's Literature are:

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press)
• Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt (Front Street Books/Boyds Mills Press)
• Sold by Patricia McCormick (Hyperion Books for Children)
• The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin (Dial/Penguin)
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck)

I have only read the spectacular Sold thus far, but Octavian Nothing is sitting on my desk...