Winners will be announced at the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 15. The ceremony will be streamed via Facebook Live and also available at our website.

Rita Williams-Garcia, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Amistad / HarperCollinsPublishers

Robin Benway, Far from the Tree HarperTeen / HarperCollinsPublishers

Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House

Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of Carolrhoda Lab / Lerner Publishing Group

Ibi Zoboi, American Street Balzer + Bray / HarperCollinsPublishers

Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of
Carolrhoda Lab / Lerner Publishing Group

Robin Benway, Far from the Tree
HarperTeen / HarperCollinsPublishers

Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House

Rita Williams-Garcia, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Amistad / HarperCollinsPublishers

Ibi Zoboi, American Street
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollinsPublishers