Wednesday, December 16, 2015

National Book Awards: Young People's Literature 2015

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(WINNER) 

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman. 
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
(Young Adult)



(FINALISTS)

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--The Thing About Jellyfish  
by Ali Benjamin. Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
(Middle Grade)

Image result for most dangerous: daniel ellsberg book cover--Bone Gap by Laura Ruby. Publisher: Balzer+Bray/Harper Collins Children's Books
 (Age 10 up)

 --Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin. Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group (Middle grade)
 
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 --Nimona by Noelle Stevenson. Publisher: 
HarperTeen/HarperCollins Children's Books
(Young Adult)






Longlist:
2015 NBA YPL Longlist  
--Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, Publisher: Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins Children's Books
--Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson, Publisher: Candlewick Press
--Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson, Publisher: Greenwillow/HarperCollins Children's Books
--This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs by Gary Paulsen, Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
--X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon, Publisher: Candlewick Press

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