SOME GIRLS BITE receives 2010 Nebraska Book Award

Huge thanks to The Nebraska Center for the Book for giving SOME GIRLS BITE a 2010 Nebraska Book Award for young adult fiction.

Here are the rest of the winners:

ANTHOLOGY: Bruce A. Glasrud and Charles A. Braithwaite. African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology. University of Nebraska Press.

ANTHOLOGY HONOR: Loren C. Eiseley, Ray Bradbury, and Aaron Franco. The Loren Eiseley Reader. Abbatia Press/Infusionmedia Publishing.

FICTION: Ladette Randolph. _A Sandhills Ballad_. University of New Mexico Press.

NONFICTION: Joe Starita. “I Am a Man”: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice. St. Martin’s Press.

NONFICTION HONOR: Robert Cochran. Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer. University of Nebraska Press.

POETRY: Dwaine Spieker. Garden of Stars. All Along Press.

COVER/DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION: Mari Sandoz and Kimberli A. Lee. “I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter”: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965. Texas Tech University Press. Designer: Lindsay Starr. Cover photos: Courtesy Caroline Sandoz Pifer Collection, Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Chadron State College

COVER/DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION HONOR: Forsberg, Michael. Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.