2009 National Book Award Winner Announced

The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, has announced the 2009 Award winners. The winner in the Young People's Literature category is Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose, which was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. "How could we not know of this courageous teenager and her remarkable contribution to the U.S. civil rights movement? Phillip Hoose's riveting and intelligent portrait incorporates photographs and other galvanizing primary source illustrations, as well as Claudette Colvin's own voice, to draw the reader fully into 1950s Montgomery." (National Book Foundation).

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