The 10 nominees on the longlist for the National Book Award for young people's literature were announced Wednesday.

Jaya Shri, 13, , right stands with friends at the unveiling of a new statue honoring suffragettes in Central Park on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. bronze statue depicting womens rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was unveiled in Central Park on Wednesday. It's the 167-year-old parks first monument honoring real historical women as opposed to fictional heroines like Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeares Juliet. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)NEW YORK A bronze statue depicting womens rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was unveiled in Central Park on Wednesday, becoming the 167-year-old parks first monument honoring historical heroines, as opposed to fictional female characters like Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeares Juliet. The commission from Monumental Women, a nonprofit that formed in 2014 to raise funds for a suffragist statue in Central Park, originally included just Stanton and Anthony, two white leaders of the fight for women's equality. Truth, a Black woman who escaped slavery and went on to campaign for abolition as well as women's rights, was a late addition.

The Hans Christian Andersen statue in Copenhagen of the Little Mermaid has been vandalized with the phrase racist fish.The perpetrator of the crime is still unknown, and the case is under investigation. The story is devoted to a mermaid princess who falls in love in with a human prince. According to Sky News, another case of vandalism with another statue in Copenhagen occurred last month. However, the Little Mermaid statue has been a popular vandalism target since 1964. Though the reason for the racism vandalism is unknown, Free Hong Kong was painted on the statue in January as a political message.