2014 National Book Award Longlist Announced for Young People's Literature

by SLJ
Sep 15, 2014 | Filed in News & Features
Just announced: The 10 National Book Award long list for Young People's Literature.
The long list for the National Book Award in the Young People's Literature category was announced this morning. The list of 10 titles represent a range of genres: from fantasy, memoir and mystery, to nonfiction and science fiction.
The 2014 long list for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature:longlist_article_version
Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory  (Viking/Penguin)
Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick Press)
Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Random House)
Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic)
Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Macmillan) Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles (Simon & Schuster)
John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Simon & Schuster)
Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic)
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin)
The list of finalists will be released October 15 and the winner will be announced at a November 19 ceremony in New York City. Past winners of the Young People's Literature category have included: Holes (Farrar, 1998) by Louis Sachar, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party (Candlewick, 2010) by M.T. Anderson, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown, 2007) by Sherman Alexie, and The Thing About Luck (S. & S., 2013) by Cynthia Kadohata.

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