Oct 15 2014
The National Book Award shortlist for this year's Young People's Literature category is:
Threatened by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic)
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
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 Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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