Nominees for children's book award
The National Book Foundation has released the long list of 10 nominees for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. They are:
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)
The short list of final nominees will be released on Oct.14, with the awards ceremony on Nov. 18.
The long lists of nominees in the categories of poetry, non-fiction and fiction will be released over the course of this week.