National Book Award

2008 National Book Award Winner
Young People's Literature

The National Book Award Finalists - Young People's Division

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)