The 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist Announced
The 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist was announced today. Here are the 10 titles announced below:
- Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
(HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers) - M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
(Candlewick Press) - Bryan Bliss, We’ll Fly Away
(Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers) - Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
(Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers) - Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie
(Scholastic Press / Scholastic, Inc.) - Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo
(Graphix / Scholastic, Inc.) - Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
(HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers) - Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint
(Dutton Children’s Books / Penguin Random House) - Elizabeth Partridge, Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam
(Viking Children’s Books / Penguin Random House) - Vesper Stamper, What the Night Sings
(Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)
Source: The National Book Foundation
Read more details about the longlist, the announcement dates for the shortlist and winner on the Los Angeles Times here.
