2009 NBA Finalists Announced
by K.C.
This year’s finalists for the National Book Award have been announced. The winners will be announced November 18. Five books are vying for the Young People’s Literature Award. They include:
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith, a personal look at the man behind evolutionary theory and how his thinking impacted his marriage to Emma, a deeply religious woman.
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, the story of a teen who in 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. Read why she is not remembered like the celebrated Rosa Parks.
Stitches: A Memoir is author David Small's graphic novel account of growing up under the watchless eyes of parents who gave him cancer (his radiologist father subjected him to unscrupulous x-rays for minor ailments) and let it develop untreated for years.
Lips Touch: Three Times presents three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls.
Jumped intertwines the lives of three very different teens in this fast-paced, gritty narrative about choices and the impact that even the most seemingly insignificant ones can have.
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I have read 3 of the 5 titles
I have read 3 of the 5 titles so far, and am pleased to see that such well-written works were recognized. There is high literary quality going on with these.