LONGLIST:
- Kwame Alexander, Booked (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)
- Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press)
- Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn (Candlewick Press)
- Sara Pennypacker & Jon Klassen (Illustrator), Pax (Balzer & Bray / HarperCollins)
- Jason Reynolds, Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
- Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story (Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group)
- Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte Press / Penguin Random House)