National Book Award Long-List

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)