The shortlist for the National Book Awards have been announced!
The Young People’s Literature list:
Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Tom McNeal, Far Far Away (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House). My review.
Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Group USA)
Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints (First Second/Macmillan). My review.
This short list came from an earlier long list, which, in addition to these five, had an additional five titles:
Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (Candlewick Press)
Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots (Philomel, A division of Penguin Group USA)
Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing (Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House)
Anne Ursu, The Real Boy (Walden Pond Press/an Imprint HarperCollinsPublishers)
Part of the reason I didn’t blog about the long list earlier is, well, I was a bit overwhelmed by it! So many titles that I hadn’t read and I knew that there was no way I was going to be able to read them all.
I will, though, try to read those on the shortlist that I haven’t read before.
Wish me luck! I have until November 20, the day the winner is announced!
Archive Tea Cozy 
What is strange for me this year is that I read and loved all the titles, except one, that were cut from the long list. I haven’t read any of the books on the short list yet.
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Regina, I always feel like I’ve read so much and been smart about my reading, but then these lists come out and it feels like I’ve read nothing.
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Don’t feel bad, Liz. It seems like there are more middle grade this year than usual, so of course you wouldn’t have read them. Also, some are Fall titles, so you haven’t had as much time. Or so I’m telling myself.
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