2020 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

Today is the day! The National Book Foundation has announced the Longlist for the 2020 National Book Award! Here is the longlist the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature:

King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne

Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth

Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh

When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

Trowbridge Road by Marcella Pixley

How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Adventure by John Rocco

The Way Back by Gavriel Savit

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

~Stay tuned for the Finalists to be revealed on October 6th.~