National Book Award longlist for young adult books announced
The longlist for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature was announced Monday. The books are drawn from many genres: fiction, science fiction and fantasy, memoir, nonfiction and mystery.
This is the second year that the National Book Foundation, which presents the National Book Awards, has announced a longlist prior to its shorter finalist list. The hope is that the longer, broader run-up to the awards will evoke the same enthusiasm in the U.S. that the Man Booker Prize does in Great Britain.
Longlists in other categories will be announced as the week progresses: Poetry on Tuesday, nonfiction on Wednesday, and fiction on Thursday.
The awards will be presented Nov. 19 at a New York gala hosted by Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket.
Among the 10 authors on the longlist for Young People’s Literature are four finalists for prior National Book Awards, plus three Newbery Honor recipients and a winner of the Printz award. The complete list is below; see a gallery of the book covers above.
Laurie Halse Anderson, “The Impossible Knife of Memory” (Viking/Penguin Group)
Gail Giles, “Girls Like Us” (Candlewick Press)
Carl Hiaasen, “Skink — No Surrender (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House)
Kate Milford, “Greenglass House” (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Eliot Schrefer, “Threatened” (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
Steve Sheinkin, “The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights” (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Publishers)
Andrew Smith, “100 Sideways Miles” (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
John Corey Whaley, “Noggin” (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Deborah Wiles, “Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two” (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
Jacqueline Woodson, “Brown Girl Dreaming” (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Group)
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