The William C. Morris Award

[Charlynn]

The 2011 finalists are:

* Hush by Eishes Chayil, published by Walker Publishing Company, a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
* Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey, published by Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group
* Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride, published by Henry Holt
* Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber, published by Margaret McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division
* The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston, published by Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group

The William C. Morris Award honors a book written for young adults by a previously unpublished author.

For more information, go HERE.