The National Book Award longlist for this year's Young People's Literature category is:
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking)
Girls Like Us by Gail Giles (Candlewick)
Skink: No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Clarion/HMH)
Threatened by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic)
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith (Simon & Schuster)
Noggin by John Corey Whaley (Atheneum)
Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two by Deborah Wiles (Scholastic)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen/Penguin)
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking)
Girls Like Us by Gail Giles (Candlewick)
Skink: No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Clarion/HMH)
Threatened by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic)
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith (Simon & Schuster)
Noggin by John Corey Whaley (Atheneum)
Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two by Deborah Wiles (Scholastic)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen/Penguin)