Morris Award Finalists
The award named for William C. Morris, a publishing executive who promoted children’s and young adult literature was announced earlier this month.
The finalists are:
- A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce, published by Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic;
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore, published by Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;
- Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne, published by HarperTeen/Laura Geringer Books;
- Madapple by Christina Meldrum, published by Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books; and
- Me, the Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine, published by HarperTeen
“After much discussion, the committee has put together quite a list for this first year of the award,” said Bonnie Kunzel, committee chair. “We hope librarians and teachers all over the country will enjoy these books themselves and share them with their teen readers.”
