National Book Awards finalists announced

The finalists for the National Book Awards have been announced!  Here are the books in Young People's Literature:  William Alexander's Goblin Secrets, Carrie Arcos' Out of Reach, Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down, Eliot Schrefer's Endangered, and Steve Sheinkin's Bomb: The Race to Build -- and Steal -- the World's Most Dangerous Weapons.

It strikes me as a very nicely balanced list--something for everyone (more or less) including a nice middle grade fantasy for me.  I myself bought Goblin Secrets after Ursula Le Guin recommended it, but then it got lost behind a radiator before I could read it, and has only just now surfaced....and I must now really put my mind to reading it, because it is also in the running for the Cybils in MG SFF!