Young Adult Books - National Book Award Finalists

Chime / Franny Billingsley
(Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, Inc. )
Protecting family secrets can be dangerous. A book about guilt and redemption.

My Name is not Easy / Debby Dahl Edwardson
(Marshall Cavendish)
A young man's struggle for equality in Alaska.

Inside Out and Back Again / Thanhha Lai
(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
A young refugee struggles to learn about American culture and fit in at school.

Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy / Albert Marrin
(Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)
The true story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in which 146 people died.

Okay for Now / Gary D. Schmidt
(Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
A teenage boy in a new town finds refuge in the local library and in a mission to restore a rare Audubon book.




Young People’s Literature Judges: Marc Aronson (Panel Chair), Ann Brashares, Matt de la Peña, Nikki Grimes, Will Weaver.