national book award finalists

[Tess]

Does anyone else find it odd that all the titles in the young people section of the 2006 national book award finalists have a pub date of early September or later? And that the library has none of them in or on order? Unless I typed them in the search feature of the library catalog incorrectly.

M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press)

Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death (Front Street Books/Boyds Mills Press)

Patricia McCormick, Sold (Hyperion Books for Children)

Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival (Dial/Penguin)

Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck)

[Mary]

The ACPL has Anderson's book, but I believe it is listed under The Pox Party rather than the name of the series. We also have copies of McCormick's Sold, and Werlin's Rules of Survival. Yang's American Born Chinese is on order for our system. While I bet more copies will be ordered, the only title we don't have in or currently on order is Leavitt's Keturah and Lord Death.

Personally, I was disappointed that there was not a representative children's book included in the finalists, these all seem to be very YA to me.

[Tess]

Good to know that the library does have them and it was a mistake on my end. the list just makes me question how the powers-that-be who select these finalists go about it. I too am disappointed that the focus is mostly YA.