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.
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