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 …read more