The National Book Award finalists for the Young People’s Literature category were announced October 15, whittled down to five from last month’s announcement of ten contenders from the longlist. The longlists and finalists were each chosen by a panel of five writers and literary experts. The winners will be announced on November 19. The five finalist titles are: Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights John Corey Whaley, Noggin Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming Eliot Schrefer, Threatened