Today they announced the longlist for this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (they’ll announce the other longlists through this week).
- The Impossible Knife of Memory, by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Girls Like Us, by Gail Giles
- Skink — No Surrender, by Carl Hiaasen
- Greenglass House, by Kate Milford
- Threatened, by Eliot Schrefer
- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, by Steve Sheinkin
- 100 Sideways Miles, by Andrew Smith
- Noggin, by John Corey Whaley
- Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two, by Deborah Wiles
- Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
