The National Book Awards began rolling out their longlists one at a time Monday via the New York Times, which posted the Young People’s Literature list of 10 candidates, including Carl Hiaasen’s SKINK – NO SURRENDER, which you can start reading an excerpt from right now in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2014: Young Adult ebook. The shortlist of five will be announced next month, with the winner to be named November 19. The full longlist: Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory (Viking Children’s) Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick) Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Knopf Children’s) Kate Milford, Greenglass […]
