"National Book Award winners announced" from Minnesota Public Radio by Marianne Combs

An eleven-year-old girl with Asperger's is the main character of Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine, which took home the award for Young People's Literature. It's published by Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group.

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