Young People's Literature Finalists 
M.T.
Anderson
Feed
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M.T.
Anderson studied English literature at Harvard
and Cambridge universities, and is currently on the faculty
at Vermont College's MFA Program in Writing for Children.
His previous young adult novels are Thirsty (1998)
and Burger Wuss (1999). He has a strong interest
in classical music, having published many classical music
reviews and articles, as well as a biography titled
Handel Who Knew What He Liked (2001). He lives in
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Set in an unspecified
time in the future - when it's as easy to go to the
moon as to the mall - this satire explores the nature
of consumerism and what it means to be a teenager
in America. Feed tells the story of Titus -
whose ability to read, write and think for himself
has been nearly obliterated by the advertising-laden
Internet "feed" implanted in his brain -
and of his relationship with Violet, who challenges
him to care about what's really going on in the world.
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Naomi
Shihab Nye
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
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Naomi
Shihab Nye - the daughter of a Palestinian father
and a German-American mother - grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem,
and San Antonio. She has devoted much of her work as a
poet and anthologist to finding bridges between the work
of writers and artists of the Middle East and North American
readers. Her anthology, Flags of Childhood, brought
together poets from all over the Middle East - Arab and
Israeli. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and
many awards for her books for younger readers, and has
published four collections of poetry for adults. |
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Sixty
new and collected poems for young people celebrating friends,
family, and neighbors, and offering a glimpse of both
the ordinary domestic life of people in the Middle East,
as well as lives lived within the confines of a refugee
camps, or in a bombed-out home, or with haunting memories
of lost relatives. |
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Elizabeth Partridge
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs
of Woody Guthrie
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Growing
up in Berkeley, California, in a large extended family,
Elizabeth Partridge lives a childhood filled with
interaction with writers, painters, musicians, and photographers
(including Dorothea Lange - a close friend of his father's).
She studied Chinese medicine in England in the 1970s and
began writing children's books in the 1990s. Her other
books for young people include Restless Spirit: The
Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (1998) and Oranges
on Golden Mountain (2001). She and her husband live
in Berkeley and are parents of two college-age sons. Read
Dress with a Pedigree. www.elizabethpartridge.com
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Illustrated
with period photographs, letters, drawings, and other
archival material, this biography of America's troubadour
focuses on how his difficult childhood in Oklahoma and
Texas, his travels during the Depression, and his friendships
with union organizers and Dust Bowl migrant workers shaped
and informed the more than 3,000 songs he wrote. |
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Jacqueline
Woodson
Hush
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Born
in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline
Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina,
and Brooklyn. A former drama therapist for runaway and
homeless children, she is the author of a number of books
for children, young adults, and adults, including Miracle's
Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award. Her
other titles include If You Come Softly (1998),
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (1995), Lena
(2000), and Autobiography of a Family Photo (1996).
Her picture books include The Other Side (2001),
Sweet, Sweet Memory (2001), We Had a Picnic
This Sunday Past (1998), and Our Gracie Aunt
(2002). Her video, "Among Good Christian People,"
a collaborative project with Katherine Saalfield, received
an American Film Institute Award. She has been a fellow
at the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook Retreat Center, and
the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
She lives in Brooklyn, and is currently working on a novel
for adults, Grail, NY. www.jacquelinewoodson.com
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Evie
(once named Toswiah) is this novel's narrator, telling
her story in flashbacks as she struggles to reinvent herself
and re-imagine her future. After her father testified
against two fellow police officers in a murder case, she
and her family enter a witness protection program, move
to a strange new city, leave their "old" lives
behind, and try to come to terms with their new identities.
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