The National Book Awards announced their 10-title longlist for young adult literature. All of the authors on the list this year are first time nominees. Finalists will be announced on October 6. Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Press) Traci Chee, We Are Not Free (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s) Evette Dionne, Lifting as We Climb (Viking Children’s) Eric Gansworth, Apple (Skin to the Core) (Levine Querido) Candice Iloh, Every Body Looking (Dutton Children’s) Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, When Stars Are Scattered (Dial) Marcella Pixley, Trowbridge Road (Candlewick Press) John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon (Crown Children’s) […]