Tuesday, September 16, 2014

National Book Awards Young People's Lit Longlist

Publishers Lunch


The National Book Awards began rolling out their longlists one at a time Monday via the New York Times, which posted the Young People's Literature list of 10 candidates, including Carl Hiaasen's SKINK - NO SURRENDER, which you can start reading an excerpt from right now in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2014: Young Adult ebook. The shortlist of five will be announced next month, with the winner to be named November 19.

The full longlist:

Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory (Viking Children's)
Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick)
Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Knopf Children's)
Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Clarion/HMH)
Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)
Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Roaring Brook Press)
Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles (S&S Children's)
John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum)
Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books)

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