2015 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People's Literature

NEW YORK - Sept. 15, 2015 - PRLog -- The National Book Foundation announced the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Finalists will be revealed on October 14.

Among this year’s ten Longlisted books is a past National Book Award Winner, a two-time National Book Award Finalist, a three-time Newbery Honor Book recipient, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book recipient, and an Eisner Award winner. Three novels are by debut authors.

The range of writing styles and genres of the ten titles on the Longlist is wide and addresses contemporary teen issues such as coming-out, coming-of-age, mental illness, and accepting loss. There are three nonfiction books: One uses music as an entry into Russian history, another focuses on a central figure in the politics of the war in Vietnam, and a third is a memoir of the author’s relationship with animals. There are six novels, one based on the early years of civil-rights leader Malcolm X, written by his daughter; and a graphic novel with the female sidekick of a supervillain, which was first serialized on the web. The Longlist also presents a novel that blends folklore and mythology.

2015 Longlist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature:


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

For more information, visit www.nationalbook.org