Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:44:48 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA]  NBA
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

No, not the National Basketball Association . . .

From:
 http://www.locusmag.com/2002/News/News11Log2.html
(url has links to other references)

"Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion
(Atheneum), a novel set in the poppy fields of a
futuristic Mexico where laborers are controlled by
computer chips in their brains, has won the National
Book Award in the Young People's Literature
category. Announced Wednesday night in
Manhattan, the awards in four categories each
include $10,000. Farmer is best known in the SF
field for having won the Writers of the Future Grand
Prize in 1988, and a Golden Duck Award in 1995 for
novel The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm."