National Book Foundation Announces Young People's Literature Longlist

Sep 12, 2016

The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The finalists will be announced on October 13, and the winner at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York on November 16. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 326 submissions, and were selected by judges William Alexander, Valerie Lewis, Ellen Oh, Katherine Paterson, and Laura Ruby.

The titles are:

  • Kwame Alexander, Booked (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)
  • John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Artist) March: Book Three (Top Shelf)
  • Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
  • Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press)
  • Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn (Candlewick Press)
  • Sara Pennypacker and Jon Klassen (Illustrator), Pax (Balzer & Bray / HarperCollins)
  • Jason Reynolds, Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
  • Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story (Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group)
  • Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also A Star (Delacorte Press / Penguin Random House)

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