The longlist for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature...

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It is as follows:

Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots

Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince

Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

Tom McNeal, Far Far Away

Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone

Anne Ursu, The Real Boy

Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints

I've read ONE. So my work is, as usual, cut out for me.