Best News Ever!!!
E. Lockhart’s Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks has been shortlisted for a National Book Award.
Let there be w00ting and w88ting across the land!
If you haven’t read it yet what the hell have you been doing? Off you go! Get thee a copy.
Congratulations, Emily. You SO deserve this!
The full shortlist:
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- Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains (Simon & Schuster)
Kathi Appelt, The Underneath (Atheneum)
Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic)
E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hyperion)
Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now (Alfred A. Knopf)
(I have not read the other titles. And, sadly, I wont get a chance before the winner is announced. I’m in deep 1930s immersion and reading only books about or published then.)
Good luck and congrats to all the nominees.
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Bethany Says:
Yay! I love that book so so much, but I don’t know many other people who’ve read it. Hopefully that will now change.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:31 pm