National Book Awards--Young People's Literature

Via Read Roger, the finalists for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature are:


Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks (Alfred A. Knopf)
Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be (Putnam)
Chris Lynch, Inexcusable (Atheneum)
Walter Dean Myers, Autobiography of My Dead Brother (HarperTempest)
Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt)

These books are all very different from one another, so much so that I think it would be difficult to decide between them!