Nonfiction Award

The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for those ages 12-18 during a Nov. 1-Oct. 31 publishing year. Find more information on the nonfiction award, including policies and procedures and how to nominate a title.

The YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award

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YALSA's Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year. The winner is announced annually at the 91传媒 , with a shortlist of up to five titles named the first week of December.

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2024 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Winner

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“Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed,” written by Dashka Slater, was named the 2024 winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award, the first national award that honors the best nonfiction books for teens.The book is published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group.

When a high school student started a private Instagram account using racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as edgy humor. Once everyone found out, no one was laughing. The lingering question: Where does accountability start and end for online speech?

2024 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Committee

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Chair Janet Hilbun, Garland, Texas; Anne Dame, Seattle, Washington; Candace Fox, Parma, Ohio; Cyndi Hamann, Arlington Heights, Illinois; Thea Hashagen, San Francisco, California; Amy Ojserkis, Media Center, Atlantic County Institute of Technology, Mays Landing, New Jersey; Kali Olson, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Celeste Swanson, Richmond, Indiana; and Monica Toomer, Homestead, Florida.

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