Longlist for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

I set an alarm on my phone to go off at 6:59 a.m. this morning. I had just pulled out of the Dunkin' Donuts parking lot when it went off. I pulled over, clicked on the National Book Award's website, and kept pressing refresh.  At 7:01 a.m., this list magically appeared...

• Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory (Viking/ Penguin Group (USA))
• Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick Press)
• Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/ Random House)
• Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Clarion Books/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)
• Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
  (Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers)
• Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)
• John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)
• Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
• Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA))

YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE JUDGES

Sharon M. Draper, Starr LaTronica, Dave Shallenberger, Sherri L. Smith, Rebecca Stead