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When is a novel for adults really a novel for children? When a publisher and its marketing department decide it is.

"I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian — that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.” - Sherman Alexie Illustration by Stephen Savage

National Book Awards - 2007

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE WINNER:Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown & Company) -Interview (illustrations by Ellen Forney)
"If you don't have a crush on Sherman Alexie after watching this, well, we've got a problem."Finalists:
Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) - Interview
M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) - Interview
Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press) - Interview
Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (Little, Brown & Company) - Interview

Judges: Elizabeth Partridge (chair),
Pete Hautman, James Howe, Patricia McCormick, and Scott Westerfeld.