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Award Winners: YALSA NF

Award winning fiction and nonfiction

About the YALSA Nonfiction Award

Young Adults Library Services Assocation'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.

Winners (NF)

The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming
Call Number: 920 LIN

ISBN: 9780525646549

Publication Date: 2020
March by John Lewis; Nate Powell (Artist)
Call Number: C LEW vol.1-3

ISBN: 9781603093958

Publication Date: 2016
Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 959.7043 SHE

ISBN: 9781596439528

Publication Date: 2015
Popular by Maya Van Wagenen
Call Number: 305.23 WAG

ISBN: 9780147512543

Publication Date: 2015
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 623.4 SHE

ISBN: 9781596434875

Publication Date: 2012

Finalists (NF)

The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix
Call Number: C HEN

ISBN: 9781419732652

Publication Date: 2018
Hillary Rodham Clinton by Karen Blumenthal
Call Number: 920 CLI

ISBN: 9781250115119

Publication Date: 2017
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Call Number: C KRO

ISBN: 9780545902489

Publication Date: 2018
In the Shadow of Liberty by Kenneth C. Davis
Call Number: 973.0496 DAV

ISBN: 9781627793117

Publication Date: 2016
Samurai Rising by Pamela S. Turner; Gareth Hinds (Illustrator)
Call Number: 952.01 TUR

ISBN: 9781580895859

Publication Date: 2018
This Land Is Our Land by Linda Barrett Osborne
Call Number: 304.80973 OSB

ISBN: 9781419716607

Publication Date: 2016
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: 780.92 AND

ISBN: 9780763668181

Publication Date: 2015
Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle; Edel Rodriguez
Call Number: F EN58m ENC

ISBN: 9781481435222

Publication Date: 2015
Go: a Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd
Call Number: 741.6 KID

ISBN: 9780761172192

Publication Date: 2013
Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson; Marina Tamar Budhos
Call Number: 664.1 ARO

ISBN: 9780618574926

Publication Date: 2010
Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone
Call Number: 629.45 STO

ISBN: 9780763636111

Publication Date: 2009
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Call Number: 364.155 SLA

ISBN: 9780374303235

Publication Date: 2017