{"id":597,"date":"2008-10-17T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T17:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2008-10-17T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T17:13:54","slug":"2008-national-book-awardsyoung-peoples-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/2008-national-book-awardsyoung-peoples-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 National Book Awards:<br>Young People&#8217;s Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the National Book Foundation announced this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nba2008.html\">National Book Award Finalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Young People&#8217;s Literature judges nominated the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laurie Halse Anderson for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/192049543&#038;referer=brief_results\">Chains<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Kathi Appelt for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/166386966&#038;referer=brief_results\">The Underneath<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Judy Blundell for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/225846561&#038;referer=brief_results\">What I Saw and How I Lied<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li>E. Lockhart for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/182525916&#038;referer=brief_results\">The Disreputable History of Frankie<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Tim Tharp for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/212854743&#038;referer=brief_results\">The Spectacular Now<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year&#8217;s judges for the Young People&#8217;s Literature category are Daniel Handler (chair), Holly Black, Angela Johnson, Carolyn Mackler, and Cynthia Voigt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the National Book Foundation announced this year&#8217;s National Book Award Finalists. The Young People&#8217;s Literature judges nominated the following: Laurie Halse Anderson for Chains Kathi Appelt for The Underneath Judy Blundell for What I Saw and How I Lied E. Lockhart for The Disreputable History of Frankie Tim Tharp for The Spectacular Now This year&#8217;s judges for the Young People&#8217;s Literature category are Daniel Handler (chair), Holly Black, Angela Johnson, Carolyn Mackler, and Cynthia Voigt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[22,34,23,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-awards","category-news-of-interest","category-publishing-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}