The National Book Awards 2018 is upon us and this week the New Yorker has been publishing the longlists for each category. Yesterday we brought you the National Book Awards longlist for fiction, and what a longlist it is, today it’s time for Young People’s Literature with ten longlisted books for you to peruse.
As always it’s an exciting list and as we all know, YA isn’t just for kids so why not pick your favourite and give it a read! Here’s the full longlist for Young People’s Literature.
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