Finalist, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2018
In Other Lands
Sarah Rees Brennan (opens in a new tab)
A difficult, clever boy is taken to a magical land and enrolled in a school for its border guards, where he wants to be a diplomat, not a soldier.
The ballot
- Akata WarriorNnedi OkoraforVikingWinner
- Summer in OrcusT. KingfisherSofawolf PressRunner-up
- A Skinful of ShadowsFrances HardingeMacmillan UK / Harry N. Abrams US
- The Art of StarvingSam J. MillerHarperTeen
- The Book of Dust: La Belle SauvagePhilip PullmanKnopf