National Book Awards Names Longlist for Young People’s Literature

National Book Awards Names Longlist for Young People’s Literature: The ten authors up for the National Book Award in the Young People’s category are:

Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson for The Undefeated,

Laurie Halse Anderson for Shout,

Akaeke Emezi for Pet,

Cynthia Kadohata for A Place to Belong,

Jason Reynolds for Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks,

Randy Ribay for Patron Saints of Nothing,

Laura Ruby for Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All,

Martin W. Sandler for 1919: The Year That Changed America,

Hall Schrieve for Out of Salem, and

Collen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw for Kiss Number 8.

The winner will be announced in November.

www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2019-national-book-awards-longlist-young-peoples-literature.