2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Longlist Announced

The 10 titles on the longlist include fiction, nonfiction, and novels-in-verse, as well as one author previously honored in the category: Randy Ribay, who was a finalist in 2019. 

 

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The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature:

Olivia A. Cole, Ariel Crashes a TrainLabyrinth Road/Penguin Random House

Violet Duncan, Buffalo DreamerNancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House

Margarita Engle, Wild DreamersAtheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster

Josh Galarza, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky. Henry Holt and Company (BYR)/Macmillan Publishers

Erin Entrada Kelly, The First State of BeingGreenwillow Books/HarperCollins Publishers

Randy Ribay, Everything We Never HadKokila/ Penguin Random House

Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem Between. G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House

Angela Shanté, The Unboxing of a Black GirlPage Street Publishing

Ali Terese, Free PeriodScholastic Press/Scholastic Inc.

Alicia D. Williams, Mid-AirAtheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Simon & Schuster

The five finalists will be revealed on Tuesday, October 1, and winner will be announced at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.

[READ: SLJ’s Reviews of the 2024 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlisters]

 

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