Book prize preview: young adult fiction nominees

The LA Times Book Prizes are coming; April 25 will be here sooner than you think. The nominated authors are busy people: in addition to writing books, many have been doing book tours and readings of their work. Take, for example, the nominees in Young Adult Fiction:

Philip Reeve talks to BBC4 about "A Darkling Plain" (audio)

Walter Dean Myers is the author of the nominated "What They Found: Love on 145th Street"

Geraldine McCaughrean is author of the nominated "The White Darkness"

Sherman Alexie reads from "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" (audio).

Kenneth Oppel talks about bats and reads from "Darkwing" (video) at Canada's Indigo Books.

Carolyn Kellogg