The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The list will be shortened to give finalists which will be announced on October 6th with the winner announced on November 18. Here are the books on the longlist:
Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
How We Got to the Moon by John Rocco
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
Trowbridge Road by Marcella Pixley
The Way Back by Gavriel Savit
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
Waking Brain Cells 
I’ve already read ‘When Stars Are Scattered,’ which I liked. I’m looking forward to ‘King and the Dragonflies’ and ‘Cemetery Boys,’ I’ve read one other book by Kacen Callender and it was really good. 🙂
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