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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Announcing the finalists for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

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

The winners will be selected in November - stay tuned!

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/64001-young-people-s-literature-longlist-announced-for-2014-national-book-award.html