The National Book Foundation has announced the ten books longlisted for this year’s National Book Award in Young People’s Literature, chosen from a total of 325 books submitted to the foundation by publishers. The judges for YPL are An Na, Elana K. Arnold, Kristen Gilligan, Varian Johnson, and Deborah Taylor. All of the National Book Award Finalists will be announced on October 8, and the winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 20th at the 2019 National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York City.
Here’s the 2019 Longlist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature:
Kwame Alexander; illustrations by Kadir Nelson, The Undefeated
Versify / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Laurie Halse Anderson, SHOUT
Viking Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House
Akwaeke Emezi, Pet
Make Me a World / Penguin Random House
Cynthia Kadohata, A Place to Belong
With illustrations by Julia Kuo
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster
Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster
Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
Kokila / Penguin Random House
Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers
Martin W. Sandler, 1919: The Year That Changed America
Bloomsbury Children’s Books / Bloomsbury Publishing
Hal Schrieve, Out of Salem
Triangle Square / Seven Stories Press
Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw, Kiss Number 8
First Second Books / Macmillan Publishers