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The Guardian in the UK has a recent interview with Sherman (5/3/08).

Sherman recently appeared on a Publishers Weekly panel in NYC - Think Future - which discussed young adult fiction. Read more in Publishers Weekly (4/30/2008).

The Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine ran a story called Radioactive Remains | The forgotten story of the Northwest's only uranium mines, by Warren Cornwall, which quotes Sherman throughout. (2/24/08)

The Spokesman Review has a new story on the public art near Spokane Falls inspired by Sherman's poem, "That Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump." (2/7/08)

Sherman wins the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Watch his acceptance speech on the NBA Web site. Watch a clip on the New York Times Web site. Read the stories in The Seattle P-I (11/14/07), The Seattle Times (11/14/07), The New York Times (11/15/07), and Publishers Weekly (11/15/07).

Sherman also won a 2008 PNBA Book Award for True Diary, which was also selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year and one of The New York Times Notable Books of the year. The book also received the 2008 Book Sense of the Year Children's Literature Honor Book award. See the True Diary page for a complete list of awards.

True Diary is available as an audio book, narrated by Sherman, and produced by Recorded Books, LLC. Visit the True Diary page for reviews and to hear an audio file of Sherman reading from the book.

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