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Saturday, October 4, 2014

2014 LONGLIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE


  • Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory (Viking/ Penguin Group (USA))
  • Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick Press)
  • Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/ Random House)
  • Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Clarion Books/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)
  • Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
    (Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers)
  • Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)
  • John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)
  • Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
  • Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA))
October 15th- The finalists will be announced.
November 19th- The winners will be announced.

My favorite of the list: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson,

I've read six of the books. The three of the other four, by Hiaasen, Milford, and Wiles, have a target audience of middle grade students.

Do you have a favorite on the list?

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