YALSA names Morris Award finalists

CHICAGO —The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), today announced the five finalists for the inaugural William C. Morris Award, which honors a book written by a first-time author for young adults.
The finalists are:

• A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce, published by Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic;
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore, published by Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;
• Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne, published by HarperTeen/Laura Geringer Books;
• Madapple by Christina Meldrum, published by Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books; and
• Me, the Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine, published by HarperTeen

~ by jjones on December 9, 2008.