National Book Awards: Young People's Literature 2015

 

(WINNER) 

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman. 

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books

(Young Adult)

(FINALISTS)

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

--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)

 

 

 --Nimona by Noelle Stevenson. Publisher: 

HarperTeen/HarperCollins Children's Books
(Young Adult)

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