The New Yorker revealed the first longlist for the National Book Awards, in young people’s literature. Finalists will be announced on October 6 and the winner will be announced at the awards gala on November 18.
Delali Adjoa, The Free Verse Society (Peachtree Teen)
Elana K. Arnold, Holloway (Clarion)
T. A. Chan, The Celestial Seas (Viking Children’s)
Tae Keller, When Tomorrow Burns (Random House Children’s)
Keala Kendall, That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic (Random House Children’s)
David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels, The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America (Knopf Children’s)
Chanel Miller, The Moon Without Stars (Philomel)
Eric Darnell Pritchard, Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams (Abrams Children’s)
Julian Randall, Shook (Holt Children’s)
Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, Life on the Moon (Knopf Children’s)
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