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Announcing the Longlist for the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature! Congrats to all, and welcome to the #NBAwards family!

Announcing the Longlist for the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature! Congrats to all, and welcome to the #NBAwards family!

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National Book Chats With Gene Luen Yang, Longlisted for the 2013 YPL National Book Award

  • National Book Foundation: What is your favorite line or passage from Boxers & Saints?
  • Gene Luen Yang: I wrote a scene where my two main characters meet one another as young children. It appears in both books. Four-Girl, the protagonist of Saints, makes a face at Little Bao, the protagonist of Boxers. Little Bao becomes infatuated with her.
  • National Book Foundation: Why?
  • Gene Luen Yang: That's happened to me. I've become infatuated with girls who make faces at me.
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National Book Chats with Cynthia Kadohata, Longlisted for the 2013 YPL National Book Award

  • National Book Foundation: What is your favorite line or passage from The Thing About Luck?
  • Cynthia Kadohata: . One of my favorite lines is when the main character's brother shouts into the wind, "For I am the great Lego builder Jaz Miyamoto. I come to conquer your state!"
  • National Book Foundation: Why?
  • Cynthia Kadohata: I love this because it shows how in the moment Jaz lives.
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National Book chats with Kathi Applet, Longlisted for the 2013 YPL National Book Award

  • National Book Foundation: What is your favorite line or passage from the True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp?
  • Kathi Appelt: They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.
  • National Book Foundation: Why?
  • Kathi Appelt: When I wrote this, it made me realize how much I truly respected my young hero, twelve-year-old Chap. Like so many kids who might be put in his shoes, he rose to the occasion. I think we wildly underestimate kids, and their abilities, and Chap to me represents all those youngsters who daily make good decisions and who stand up for what is fair and right.
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National Book Chats With David Levithan, Longlisted for the 2013 YPL National Book Award

  • National Book Foundation: What is your favorite line or passage from Two Boys Kissing
  • David Levithan: I don't really want to blurt it out here, because it all depends on context for its impact. It involves vessels.
  • National Book Foundation: Why is your favorite?
  • David Levithan: Because it's true. And I didn't know that I knew it until I wrote that passage.
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National Book Chats with Kate DiCamillo, Longlisted for the 2013 YPL National Book Award

  • NBF: What is your favorite line or passage from Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures?
  • Kate DiCamillo: These are the lines that keep going through my head:
  • "Whom did she trust?
  • Good grief, she trusted William Spiver."
  • NBF: Why?
  • Kate DiCamillo: I guess I keep thinking of these lines because they remind me of the miracle of friendship . . . the great gift of suddenly discovering that you are not, after all, alone.
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National Book chats with Lisa Graff, Longlisted for the 2013 YPL National Book Award

  • National Book Foundation: What is your favorite line or passage from A Tangle of Knots?
  • Lisa Graff: "From the instant Miss Mallory had held the sprite of a child to her chest on that foggy morning eleven years ago, she’d known the girl was special. The tiny little thing had wrapped her arms around Miss Mallory’s neck and shaped her body into Miss Mallory’s curves. And all at once, it had become clear to Miss Mallory that the child’s heartbeat matched up precisely with her own. Tra-thump. Tra-thump. Tra-thump. They were beating in time together, a perfect rhythm.
  • Miss Mallory had named the girl Cadence."
  • National Book Foundation: Why?
  • Lisa Graff: It wasn't until I wrote it that I knew why I'd named my protagonist Cadence. I also like that it sets up one of the most important relationships in the story, and gives you a sense of how tangled up in each other's lives these two will come to be. This passage made it through several drafts of the novel, with only a word change here or there, so I knew it was a keeper.
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This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20. 

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