National Book Award finalists named

The finalists for the National Book Awards have been announced. Here are the nominees in the Young People's Literature category: Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown); Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird (Philomel); Laura McNeal, Dark Water (Knopf); Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown (Amistad/HarperCollins); and Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer (Amistad/HarperCollins).

To view a full list of nominees in all categories, visit this page on the National Book Awards website.