The National Book Foundation just announced the finalists for the 2008 award.  Here is the list for Young People’s Literature:

Laurie Halse Anderson for Chains

Kathi Appelt for The Underneath (Yippee!)

Judy Blundell for What I Saw and How I Lied

E. Lockhart for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hurrah!)

Tim Tharp for The Spectacular Now