Congratulations to all the wonderful authors who made the longlist!
Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of (Carolrhoda Lab / Lerner Publishing Group)
Robin Benway, Far from the Tree (HarperTeen / HarperCollinsPublishers)
Samantha Mabry, All the Wind in the World (Algonquin Young Readers / Workman Publishing Company)
Mitali Perkins, You Bring the Distant Near (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers / Macmillan Publishers)
Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down (Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster)
Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
(Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)
Laurel Snyder, Orphan Island (Walden Pond Press / HarperCollinsPublishers)
Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollinsPublishers)
Rita Williams-Garcia, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (Amistad / HarperCollinsPublishers)
Ibi Zoboi, American Street (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollinsPublishers)
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE JUDGES:
Suzanna Hermans, Brendan Kiely, Kekla Magoon, Meg Medina (Chair), Alex Sanchez
I’ve only read You Bring The Distant Near and The Hate You Give and both were incredible!!
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THUG is still on my TBR. Im probably going to add all of these
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