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[edit]
| 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[edit]
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults | Awards & Grants". American Library Association. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Lam, Anna (2020-12-02). "YALSA announces 2021 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award finalists". News and Press Center. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
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