Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
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Details
Frequency: Annual
Award Information
Title | Year | |
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The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance, written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee and published by Charlesbridge Teen
2020 - Finalist(s) The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance, written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee and published by Charlesbridge Teen |
2020 - Finalist(s) | |
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust, written by Albert Marrin and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House
2020 - Finalist(s) A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust, written by Albert Marrin and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint... |
2020 - Finalist(s) | |
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II, written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
2020 - Finalist(s) A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II, written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Balzer + Bray... |
2020 - Finalist(s) | |
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children's Ship", written by Deborah Heiligman and published by Henry Holt, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
2020 - Finalist(s) Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children's Ship", written by Deborah Heiligman and published by Henry Holt, an imprint... |
2020 - Finalist(s) | |
2020 Excellence in Nonfiction
2020 - Winner(s) Free Lunch, written by Rex Ogle and published by Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company. |
2020 - Winner(s) |
Title | Year | |
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Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam
2019 - Finalist(s) |
2019 - Finalist(s) | |
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
2019 - Finalist(s) |
2019 - Finalist(s) | |
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
2019 - Finalist(s) |
2019 - Finalist(s) | |
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor
2019 - Finalist(s) |
2019 - Finalist(s) | |
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) |
Title | Year | |
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
2018 - Finalist(s) |
2018 - Finalist(s) | |
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism
2018 - Finalist(s) |
2018 - Finalist(s) | |
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
2018 - Finalist(s) |
2018 - Finalist(s) | |
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
2018 - Finalist(s) |
2018 - Finalist(s) | |
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
2018 - Winner(s) “Vincent and Theo” depicts the interdependence of the two Dutch brothers, from their childhood in an austere nineteenth century Dutch parsonage to the Parisian fin... |
2018 - Winner(s) |
Title | Year | |
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March: Book Three
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History
2017 - Finalist(s) |
2017 - Finalist(s) | |
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
2017 - Finalist(s) |
2017 - Finalist(s) | |
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
2017 - Finalist(s) |
2017 - Finalist(s) | |
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
2017 - Finalist(s) |
2017 - Finalist(s) | |
Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History
2017 - Finalist(s) |
2017 - Finalist(s) |
Title | Year | |
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Steve Jobs
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Moonbird
2013 - Finalist(s) |
2013 - Finalist(s) | |
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
2013 - Finalist(s) |
2013 - Finalist(s) | |
We’ve Got a Job
2013 - Finalist(s) |
2013 - Finalist(s) | |
Bomb
2013 - Winner(s) |
2013 - Winner(s) |
Title | Year | |
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
2012 - Winner(s) |
2012 - Winner(s) | |
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
2012 - Finalist(s) |
2012 - Finalist(s) | |
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
2012 - Finalist(s) |
2012 - Finalist(s) | |
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
2012 - Finalist(s) |
2012 - Finalist(s) | |
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
2012 - Finalist(s) |
2012 - Finalist(s) |
Title | Year | |
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Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing
2011 - Winner(s) |
2011 - Winner(s) | |
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
2011 - Finalist(s) |
2011 - Finalist(s) | |
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
2011 - Finalist(s) |
2011 - Finalist(s) | |
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories
2011 - Finalist(s) |
2011 - Finalist(s) | |
Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates
2011 - Finalist(s) |
2011 - Finalist(s) |
Title | Year | |
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
2010 - Finalist(s) In the early 1960s, the doctor in charge of testing NASA’s astronauts decided to find out if female pilots were capable of passing the grueling... |
2010 - Finalist(s) | |
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
2010 - Winner(s) After creating a list of the pros and cons of marriage, science-minded Charles Darwin chooses to marry his strictly religious first cousin. Little does he... |
2010 - Winner(s) | |
Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice
2010 - Finalist(s) Hoose recounts the largely untold story of Claudette Colvin, who was arrested and jailed at the age of 15 after refusing to relinquish her seat... |
2010 - Finalist(s) | |
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous and Stupendous Life of the Showman P. T. Barnum
2010 - Finalist(s) Thrill to the audacity! Gasp at the hucksterism! Come one, come all to the jaw-dropping, larger-than-life biography of expert humbugger, relentless curiosity seeker, and unparalleled... |
2010 - Finalist(s) | |
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
2010 - Finalist(s) By presenting a detailed examination into the work of different types of forensic archaeology at excavations in both Jamestown, Virginia, and Colonial Maryland, readers are... |
2010 - Finalist(s) |
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The title must include excellent writing, research, presentation and readability for young adults. If no title is deemed sufficiently meritorious, no award will be given that year. The chair, with assistance from designated YALSA staff, is responsible for verifying the eligibility of all nominated titles.
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Fill out the . Only books published between November 1, 2011 and October 31, 2012 will be considered for the 2013 award.
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The award will be presented to the author(s) of the winning and honor titles at a ceremony at an 91´«Ã½ or YALSA conference.