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Judy Blundell has won this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Her book What I Saw and How I Lied is popular with teens. Here's an excerpt:  

The sky was full of stacked gray clouds and the air tasted like a nickel. The sun hadn’t had time to bake the wetness from the sand. I had the place to myself. Me and the fishermen. Peter and I had watched them surfcasting together. One day, one of them had brought him home.

When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she fell slow. She had time to notice things on her way down -- Oh, there’s a teacup! There’s a table! So things seemed almost normal to her while she was falling. Then she bumped down and rolled into Wonderland, and all hell broke loose.