YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
FINALISTS:
- Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)
- John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist), March: Book Three (Top Shelf Productions / IDW Publishing)
- Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Jason Reynolds, Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
- Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House)
LONGLIST:
- Kwame Alexander, Booked (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press)
- Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn (Candlewick Press)
- Sara Pennypacker & Jon Klassen (Illustrator), Pax (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins)
- Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story (Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group)
Unbelievably for me I have only read one of the books on the lists, Burn Baby Burn. Many of the books are aimed at a younger population of readers or middle grade readers. Of all the books on the list I really want to read March Three, the third book in a series about the life of John Lewis, a Civil Rights activist and American hero. There is usually very little crossover with National Book Award and the Printz Award so I am not too worried that I am missing some book I should be thinking about for the Printz. We'll see. Watch this space on November 15th for the announcement of the winner. As soon as I know something I will announce it.
I haven't read a single one but several of them are on my tbr.
ReplyDeleteI liked Booked (but not quite as much as The Crossover) and was a bit disappointed in Pax after hearing so much about it. Ghost and Burn Baby Burn are high on my TBR.
ReplyDeleteI need to get cracking to finish the last three books for your ALA awards challenge in time to start reading this year's winners!