The longlist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature has been announced. Here are the ten books that made the list:

A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne

The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes

The Leaving Room by Amber McBride

A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila

(S)kin by Ibi Zoboi

Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout

The Teacher or Nomad Land by Daniel Nayeri

Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr

A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff