2017 National Book Award Longlist, Young People's Literature

Angie Thomas: The most difficult part was quietly expecting my second book - I decided to write this article for myself rather than others, but I will accomplish this I spent a while trying to do it. The best thing is that young black girls especially like this story and tell you that they are related to Starr.

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The 16 year old Star Carter moved between the two worlds: a poor community where she lived and a suburban preparatory school where she was. When Stahl witnessed a deadly shootout of her best friend, Khalil in the hands of the policeman, the imbalance between the world was crushed. Hariril is not armed

Shortly thereafter, his death became a national news. Some people call him a mob, and perhaps even a drug dealer or gang. The protesters headed for the street under the name of Halil. Several cops and the local drug king tried to intimidate the star and her family. Everyone wants to know: What happened that night? The only person who can answer is Stahl.

Angie Thomas was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is a former teen rapper and her greatest achievement is to publish an article about her at Right On! Magazine She has a bachelor's degree in creative writing. Hate U Give is her first novel

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

This year's judges of this department wrote that the work "Beyond the Tree" was awarded the 2017 National Youth Literature Book and that the author of "Fake ID", the founder of the non-profit organization We Need Diverse Books, Lamar It is Giles. Member; Grace Worcester Greene, who worked at the library with young people for her career; Valerie Koehler, the owner of the Blue Willow bookstore in Western Houston; and the author of many books, Mitali Perkins, It is getting closer. "

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