This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for this year’s_ National Book Awards. Today, we present the ten contenders in the category of Young People’s Literature. Check back tomorrow _for Poetry.

The contenders for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature include a novel in verse about a twelve-year-old soccer nut, an illustrated adventure story that draws on Chinese folklore, a work of nonfiction about a woman who survived the atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Nagasaki, a surreal love story involving rumored witches, and a graphic novel about the civil-rights movement co-written by a sitting U.S. congressman.

The varied list also features novels about a boy and a fox, a middle-school track star, a young girl attempting to win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, a seventeen-year-old in New York City in 1977, and a romance between a girl who is drawn to science and a boy who wants to be a poet.

The complete list is below.

Kwame Alexander, “**Booked”

** Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kate DiCamillo, “**Raymie Nightingale”

** Candlewick Press

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, “**March: Book Three”

** Top Shelf

**Grace Lin, “When the Sea Turned to Silver”

** Little, Brown

Anna-Marie McLemore, “**When the Moon Was Ours”

** Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press

**Meg Medina, “Burn Baby Burn”

** Candlewick Press

Sara Pennypacker and 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”

** Random House / Delacorte Press

The judges in this year’s Young People’s Literature category are William Alexander, who won the National Book Award in 2012 for his first novel, “Goblin Secrets”; Valerie Lewis, the co-author of “Valerie & Walter’s Best Books for Children” and the co-owner of Hicklebee’s, a children’s bookstore in California; Ellen Oh, the co-founder of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books; Katherine Paterson, whose many novels include “Bridge to Terabithia” and “Jacob Have I Loved”; and Laura Ruby, who was a National Book Award finalist for her book “Bone Gap.”

National Book Awards finalists will be announced on October 13th, and winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York on November 16th.