The National Book Foundation has revealed the Young People’s Literature Longlist for the National Book Award (NBA).
Below, we’ve collected free samples of all the books on the longlist for your reading pleasure. The finalists will be announced on October 15. Here’s more from the release:
Among this year’s ten Longlisted books are four former National Book Award Finalists, three Newbery Honor Book recipients, a Michael L. Printz Award Winner, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. The ten titles on the Longlist are a range of sophisticated voices and writing styles in genres that include fantasy, memoir, mystery, nonfiction, science fiction, and a novelized history.
2014 Longlist for Young People’s Literature:
Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
Viking/ Penguin Group (USA)
Gail Giles, Girls Like Us
Candlewick Press
Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/ Random House
Kate Milford, Greenglass House
Clarion Books/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Eliot Schrefer, Threatened
Scholastic Press/ Scholastic
Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers
Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster
John Corey Whaley, Noggin
Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster
Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two
Scholastic Press/ Scholastic
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA)