The National Book Foundation is announcing the 2024 National Book Award longlists this week. Five finalists in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be named October 1. The winners will be announced during an awards ceremony in New York City on November 20.
Young People’s Literature
- Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole (Labyrinth Road)
- Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen)
- Wild Dreamers by Margarita Engle (Atheneum)
- The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza (Holt)
- The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow)
- Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
- Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (Putnam)
- The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté (Page Street)
- Free Period by Ali Terese (Scholastic)
- Mid Air by Alicia D. Williams (Caitlyn Dlouhy)
A total of 333 books were submitted for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The judges are Rose Brock, Huda Fahmy, Leah Johnson, Mike Jung, and Brein Lopez (chair).
