Longlist for the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

• Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
  (HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers)
• M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
  (Candlewick Press)
• Bryan Bliss, We’ll Fly Away
  (Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers)
• Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
  (Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers)
• Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie
  (Scholastic Press / Scholastic, Inc.)
• Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo
  (Graphix / Scholastic, Inc.)
• Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
  (HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers)
• Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint
  (Dutton Children’s Books / Penguin Random House)
• Elizabeth Partridge, Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam
  (Viking Children’s Books / Penguin Random House)
• Vesper Stamper, What the Night Sings
  (Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)