2015 National Book Awards Longlist For Young People's Lit

Hey readers, here's the 2015 National Book Awards Longlist For Young People’s Literature. It's great to see new books from Gary Paulsen, M.T. Anderson, and Neal Shusterman. I've read The Thing About Jellyfish and recommend it highly. The most exciting title on this list, however, is Most Dangerous, by Steve Sheinkin who will be working with our 7th grade students in February. Exciting!

• 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)
• Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger (Greenwillow/HarperCollins Children's Books)
• Gary Paulsen, This Side of Wild (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 (HarperCollins Children's Books)
• Noelle Stevenson, Nimona (HarperTeen/HarperCollins Children's Books)

http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_ypl_ll.html#.Vfex1p2qqkq