The National Book Foundation kicked off its longlist announcements today with the 10 nominees for Young People’s Literature. Shortlists will be named on October 1. The Translated Literature list will be announced on Tuesday afternoon at 2 pm ET.
Olivia A. Cole, Ariel Crashes a Train (Labyrinth Road)
Violet Duncan, Buffalo Dreamer (Nancy Paulsen Books)
Margarita Engle, Wild Dreamers (Atheneum)
Josh Galarza, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky (Holt Children’s)
Erin Entrada Kelly, The First State of Being (Greenwillow Books)
Randy Ribay, Everything We Never Had (Kokila)
Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem Between (Putnam Children’s)
Angela Shanté, The Unboxing of a Black Girl (Page Street Publishing)
Ali Terese, Free Period (Scholastic Press)
Alicia D. Williams, Mid-Air (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
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