National Book Awards 2015 Young People's Literature Longlist
This week, the National Book Foundation is releasing the longlists for its 2015 awards. Up first, the finalists for Young People's Literature. The shortlists will be released on October 14, and the winners on November 18 at a ceremony in New York City.
2015 Longlist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature:
Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Children's Books
M. T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, Candlewick Press
Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group
Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger
Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Children's Books
Gary Paulsen, This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Laura Ruby, Bone Gap
Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Children's Books
Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon, X: A Novel
Candlewick Press
Steve Sheinkin, Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
HarperTeen/HarperCollins Children's Books
Noelle Stevenson, Nimona
HarperTeen/HarperCollins Children's Books
