Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb (Delacorte) is the winner of the Writers’ League of Texas Teddy Award. Read a Cynsations interview with Margo.

The finalists are: We Are One by Larry Dane Brimmer (Calkins Creek); The Bee Tree by Stephen Buchmann and Diana Cohn, illustrated by Paul Mirocha (Cinco Puntos); The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous by Suzanne Crowley (HarperCollins)(author interview); The Red Queen’s Daughter by Jacqueline Kolosov (Hyperion).

Don’t miss the Writer’s League Violet Crown and Teddy Book Awards panel at 3 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Texas State Capitol Extension 2.026 in conjunction with the Texas Book Festival.