Borders announces 2006 Original Voices finalists.

The YA/Juv titles are:

Bass Ackwards & Belly Up by Elizabeth Craft
Dairy Queen written by Catherine Murdock
Endymion Spring by Mathew Skelton
The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Skinny by Ibi Kaslik
Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu

I'd vote for Dairy Queen, but it's also the only title I've read in its entirety.  And for the last time (maybe), just because a book is about the Holocaust does NOT mean it's a good book.  Yeech.

The other categories/finalists are here.