Finalists have been announced for the Heartland Booksellers Award, a prize given jointly by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association to celebrate literature in the Great Lakes and Midwest, with content either about the region, or an author from the region. The winners will be honored on opening night of this year's Heartland Fall Forum in St. Louis, Mo. The finalists are:
Fiction
Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan (Holt)
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (Norton)
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor (Riverhead)
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Nonfiction
Gichigami Hearts by Linda LeGarde Grover (University of Minnesota Press)
In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch (Princeton University Press)
The Midwest Survival Guide by Charlie Berens (Morrow)
The Way She Feels by Courtney Cook (Tin House)
Poetry
Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow by Noor Hindi (Haymarket Books)
A Peculiar People by Steven Willis (Button Poetry)
The Renunciations by Donika Kelly (Graywolf Press)
There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt (Haymarket Books)
YA/Middle Grade
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
I Must Betray You by Ruth Sepetys (Philomel)
Maya and the Robot by Eve L. Ewing (Kokila)
The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)
Children's Picture Book
Chang Sings by Amanda Gorman, illustrated by Loren Long (Viking Children's Books)
Little Loon Finds His Voice by Yvonne Pearson, illustrated by Regina Shklovsky (The Collective Book Studio)
Out of a Jar by Deborah Marcero (Putnam Books for Young Readers)
The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López (Nancy Paulsen Books)