2014 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature is Revealed
Finalists will be announced on October 15. The National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner will be held on November 19 in New York City, at which time the winners will be announced.
2014 Longlist for Young People’s Literature:
- Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory (Viking)
- Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick)
- Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Knopf)
- Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Clarion)
- Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)
- Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Roaring Brook)
- Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles (Simon & Schuster)
- John Corey Whaley, Noggin (S&S/Atheneum)
- Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
- Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin/Paulsen)
Young People’s Literature Judges:
- Sharon M. Draper, author and educator
- Starr LaTronica, librarian and president of the Association for Library Services to Children
- Dave Shallenberger, co-owner of Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia
- Sherri L. Smith, author
- Rebecca Stead, author and 2010 Newbery Medalist
