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Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

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An award for the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a November 1 – October 31 publishing year.

seal for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

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Year Began: 2010

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Frequency: Annual

Next Deadline

November 1, 2024

Award Information

	Title	Year
	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)
	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)

	Title	Year
	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
	#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)
	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)

	Title	Year
	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
	We’ve Got a Job 2013 - Finalist(s)	2013 - Finalist(s)
	Bomb 2013 - Winner(s)	2013 - Winner(s)
	Steve Jobs 2013 - Finalist(s)	2013 - Finalist(s)
	Moonbird 2013 - Finalist(s)	2013 - Finalist(s)
	Titanic: Voices from the Disaster 2013 - Finalist(s)	2013 - Finalist(s)

	Title	Year
	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
	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
	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)
	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)