PROVO, Utah — Brigham Young University alumna Olivia Birdsall was recently selected by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers as the winner of the 2005 Delacorte Press Contest for a First Young Adult Novel.

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The winning book, Notes on a Near-Life Experience, will be published by Random House Children's Books in spring 2007.

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