2006
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Keturah and Lord Death
By Martine Leavitt
Current
Publisher: Front
Street Books (Boyds Mills Press)
Digital
Publisher: Namelos
Reading Level: Ages 13 & Up
YPL Finalists That Year:
- Martine Leavitt for Keturah and Lord Death
- Patricia McCormick for Sold
- Nancy Werlin for The Rules of Survival
- Gene Luen Yang for American Born Chinese
YPL Winner That Year: M.T. Anderson for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
Judges That Year: Margaret Bechard, Patricia McKissack, Linda Sue Park, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Jude Watson
The Year in Literature: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins won the Newbery Medal. Looking for Alaska by John Green won the Printz Award.
More Information: Leavitt’s books have been translated into more than five different languages, including Dutch and Korean. The Italian edition of her 2004 book, Heck Superhero, was a finalist for the Premio Paolo Ungari/Unicef in 2008.
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