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Amber Gibson picks a National Book Awards winner

Attention, please, Princeton admissions officers:

Amber Gibson, book reviewer extraordinaire, is coming your way. If she cruises through your curriculum the way she takes out piles of books for the BPP, then you've got a future valedictorian knocking. Let her in.

On this morning's show, Amber took on the finalists for young people's literature in the upcoming National Book Awards. Hit the listen link for her pick.

Meanwhile, anyone else read these? List of finalists after the bump.

 

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger, a Resurrection of Magic, Book One

M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow

Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl