The 2015 National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature has been announced. The finalists will be named on October 14th and the winners announced on November 18th.
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares and Laughing Dinosaurs by Gary Paulsen
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon