2017 National Book Award Longlist, Young People's Literature

The perfect Mexican daughter will not go to college. After graduating from high school, they never leave their parents' house. The perfect Mexican daughter will never give up on their family

Then a tragic accident happened in Chicago's busiest street, the Olga died, and Julia stayed to reassemble the broken part of her family. No one seems to admit that Julia is also broken. Instead, her mother seems to lead her grief to point out all the ways Julia could fail.

But soon, Julia discovered that Olga might not be as perfect as someone could imagine. With her help Lorena, her first kiss, with the help of the first love, the first boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find. How does Olga truly look like her? Are there any stories about her sister? Either way, how does Julia try to respond to ideals that seems impossible?

Erica L. Sanchez is a poet, essayist, novelist. She has been a columnist for Love for Cosmopolitan Latino and Latino for three years and her work has appeared in Rolling Stones, Salon, Paris Review. Her first poetry collection "Exile" was published by Gray Wolff in 2009. She lives in Chicago, not far from the environment where I am not your perfect Mexican daughter.

Alaya Dawn Johnson is the author of six adults and young novels. Her novel "The Prince of Summer" was published in the Best Literature Book of the year. Her recent "Love is Drugs" received the Andre Norton Prize. Her short stories are published in many magazines and collections, including Asimov, science fiction novels, interzone, underground, zombies versus unicorn, and Welcome to Bordertown. In addition to Norton, she also received the Cybil and Nebula Award, and was nominated for the Indian Choice Award and the Locus Prize. She lives in Mexico City. AlayaDawnJohnson.com. @ alayadj

In this year's Youth Literature Awards, the only work included in non-fiction works is Boots of the Ground, but there are competitors who explain the serious injustice in history with the young hero as the main character. Illustrator Vesper Stamper has a "night song" about youth survivors about the Holocaust, the "very big sea" of Tahereh Mafi, the face of prejudice facing Muslim girls growing . The 9/11 incident and the result of Christopher Paul Curtis' s "Little Charlie's journey" calculated the influence of the white tenant's son on slavery. This year's selection includes important topics such as addiction, sexual assault, war, imprisonment. Formerly M. T. Anderson received the National Book Award and Elizabeth Partridge went into the final. For the other nine authors, this is the beginning

I heard that it has become a symbolic year for colored women's books. Jesmyn Ward received the 2017 National Book Award. This is the first time a novel prize was awarded twice by blacks or women. Therefore, I officially put the challenging, Ward in companies of William Faulkner, Solbey and Philip Roth. The long list of ten novels of this year's National Book Awards has six books written by colored women and three thirds left in the final selection of the young Lions of the New York Public Library in 2017 are colored It is a woman