National Book Awards announced the finalists for young…

National Book Awards announced the finalists for young people’s literature: Kathi Appelt for “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp” (Atheneum); Cynthia Kadohata for “The Thing About Luck” (Atheneum); Tom McNeal for “Far Far Away” (Knopf); Meg Rosoff for “Picture Me Gone” (Putnam); and Gene Luen Yang for “Boxers & Saints” (First Second). I am almost done with The Thing About Luck and loving it. Will definitely read both the McNeal and the Rosoff!