LONGLIST FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
The announcement has been made. If you haven’t read these, do so. I’ve either read them or have them on my hold list at the library. This is a rather excellent list.
- Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
- Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (Candlewick Press)
- Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots (Philomel Books/Penguin Group USA)
- Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
- Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
- David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
- Tom McNeal, Far Far Away (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
- Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Group USA)
- Anne Ursu, The Real Boy (Walden Pond Press/HarperCollinsPublishers)
- Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints (First Second/Macmillan)
JUDGES:
Deb Caletti, Cecil Castellucci, Peter Glassman, E. Lockhart, Lisa Von Drasek
booksandbassets 