Book prize preview: young adult fiction nominees

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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