National Book Awards Longlist: The 2021 National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature was announced on September 15, 2021. The books mentioned are:
Safia Elhillo, Home Is Not a Country
Make Me a World / Penguin Random House
Shing Yin Khor, The Legend of Auntie Po
Kokila / Penguin Random House
Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth
Levine Querido
Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Dutton Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House
Kyle Lukoff, Too Bright to See
Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House
Kekla Magoon, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
Candlewick Press
Amber McBride, Me (Moth)
Feiwel and Friends / Macmillan Publishers
Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season
Feiwel and Friends / Macmillan Publishers
Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrations by Floyd Cooper, Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group
Paula Yoo, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
Norton Young Readers / W. W. Norton & Company
For more information, see: National Book Foundation, Presenter of the National Book Awards Update: The five finalists were announced on October 5, 2021. SLJ’s Reviews of the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalists: https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=slj-reviews-2021-national-book-award-for-young-peoples-literature-finalists
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