Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults is an annual award from the American Library Association that recognizes the best nonfiction books published for young adults ages 12-18 the previous year. The judges select nonfiction titles published for young adults that were published the previous year between November 1 and October 31.[1] All print forms that are marked as intended for young adults are eligible for consideration, including graphic formats. [1] To be eligible, "the title must include excellent writing, research, presentation and readability for young adults."
Beyond being a requirement for Common Core Standards, reading nonfiction has many benefits: students can "read books about topics that touch on their own lives," live vicariously through others' lives, grapple with philosophical topics.[2] The Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults award is one of few that recognizes nonfiction for young adults.[3][4]
Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010[5] | Deborah Heiligman | Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith | Winner |
| Tanya Lee Stone | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | Finalist | |
| Phillip Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | ||
| Candace Fleming and Ray Fenwick (Illus.) | The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum | ||
| Sally M. Walker | Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland | ||
| 2011[6] | Ann Angel | Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing | Winner |
| Susan Campbell Bartoletti | They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group | Finalist | |
| Paul Janeczko | The Dark Game: True Spy Stories | ||
| Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw | Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates | ||
| 2012[7] | Steve Sheinkin | The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery | Winner |
| Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos | Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science | Finalist | |
| Karen Blumenthal | Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition | ||
| Sue Macy | Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) | ||
| Susan Goldman Rubin | Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein | ||
| 2013[8] | Steve Sheinkin | Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | Winner |
| Karen Blumenthal | Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different | Finalist | |
| Phillip Hoose | Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 | ||
| Deborah Hopkinson | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | ||
| Cynthia Levinson | We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March | ||
| 2014[9] | Neal Bascomb | The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi | Winner |
| Chip Kidd | Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design | Finalist | |
| Martin W. Sandler | Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II | ||
| Tanya Lee Stone | Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers | ||
| James L. Swanson | The President Has Been Shot! The Assassination of John F. Kennedy | ||
| 2015[10] | Maya Van Wagenen | Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek | Winner |
| Shane Burcaw | Laughing at My Nightmare | Finalist | |
| Candace Fleming | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia | ||
| Emily Arnold McCully | Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business—and Won! | ||
| Steve Sheinkin | The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights | ||
| 2016[11] | Steve Sheinkin | Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War | Winner |
| M.T. Anderson | Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad | Finalist | |
| Margarita Engle | Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir | ||
| Tim Grove | First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race | ||
| Nancy Plain | This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon | ||
| 2017[12][13] | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell | March: Book Three | Winner |
| Karen Blumenthal | Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History | Finalist | |
| Kenneth C. Davis | In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives | ||
| Pamela S. Turner and Gareth Hinds (Illus.) | Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune | ||
| Linda Barrett Osborne | This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration | ||
| 2018[14] | Deborah Heiligman | Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers | Winner |
| Mary Beth Leatherdale and Lisa Charleyboy (Eds.) | #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women | Finalist | |
| Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos | Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism | ||
| Dashka Slater | The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives | ||
| Martin W. Sandler | The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found | ||
| 2019[15][16] | Don Brown | The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees | Winner |
| Sonia Sotomayor | The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor | Finalist | |
| Elizabeth Partridge | Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam | ||
| John Hendrix | The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler | ||
| Jarrett J. Krosoczka | Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction | ||
| 2020[17] | Rex Ogle | Free Lunch | Winner |
| Elizabeth Wein | A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II | Finalist | |
| Albert Marrin | A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust | ||
| Lynn Curlee | The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance | ||
| Deborah Heiligman | Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children's Ship" | ||
| 2021[18] | Candace Fleming | The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh | Winner |
| Christina Soontornvat | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | Finalist | |
| Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan | The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival | ||
| John Rocco | How We Got To the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure | ||
| Elizabeth Rusch | You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Democracy and Deliver Power to the People |
References
- "Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults | Awards & Grants". American Library Association. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Lesesne, Teri S. (Fall 2013). "Tell Me a (Real) Story: The Demand for Literary Nonfiction". The ALAN Review: 64–69.
- Crisp, Thomas; Gardner, Roberta Price; Almeida, Matheus (2018-09-01). "The All-Heterosexual World of Children's Nonfiction: A Critical Content Analysis of LGBTQ Identities in Orbis Pictus Award Books, 1990–2017". Children's Literature in Education. 49 (3): 246–263. doi:10.1007/s10583-017-9319-5. ISSN 1573-1693.
- Fraser, Elizabeth (2012). Reality rules II : a guide to teen nonfiction reading interests. Santa Barbara, California: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 1-61069-292-6. OCLC 828140161.
- "2010 Nonfiction Adward". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2018-06-05. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2011 Nonfiction Award". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2011-12-07. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2012 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2013 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2014 Nonfiction Award". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2015 Nonfiction Award". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2016 Nonfiction Award". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Nonfiction Award 2017". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2017-12-07. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2017 ALA Youth Media Awards". The Catholic Library World. 87 (3). March 2017 – via ProQuest.
- "2018 Nonfiction Award". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2019 Nonfiction Award". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "2019 ALA Youth Media Awards". The Catholic Library World. 89 (3). March 2019 – via ProQuest.
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