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Award Winning Children and Youth Book/Media

Current year award winners of the Young Adult Services Library Association and Association for Library Services to Children

About Young Adult Nonfiction

The YALSA Award for Excellence (Nonfiction Award) in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18).

YALSA Nonfiction Award (current and past)

2021 Winner

The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | TL540.L5 F56 2020
ISBN: 9780525646549
Publication Date: 2020-02-11

2021 Finalists

All Thirteen: the Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
Call Number: Not at library
ISBN: 9781536209457
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess; Laura L. Sullivan
Call Number: Not at library
ISBN: 9781547604531
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
How We Got to the Moon by John Rocco
Call Number: Not at library
ISBN: 9780525647416
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
You Call This Democracy? by Elizabeth Rusch
Call Number: Not at library
ISBN: 9780358387428
Publication Date: 2020-03-31

2020 Winner

Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | HV741 .O35 2019
ISBN: 9781324003601
Publication Date: 2019-09-10

2020 Finalists

The Great Nijinsky by Lynn Curlee (Illustrator)
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | GV1785.N6 C85 2019
ISBN: 9781580898003
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | PG7158.G662 M35 2019
ISBN: 9781524701208
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
A Thousand Sisters by Elizabeth Wein
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | D792.S65 W45 2019
ISBN: 9780062453013
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | D772.C46 H45 2019
ISBN: 9781627795548
Publication Date: 2019-10-08

2019 Winner

The Unwanted by Don Brown
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | DS98.6 .B76 2018
ISBN: 9781328810151
Publication Date: 2018-09-18

2019 Finalists

The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | BX4827.B57 H454 2018
ISBN: 9781419728389
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Boots on the Ground by Elizabeth Partridge
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | DS558 .P38 2018
ISBN: 9780670785063
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | PZ7.7.K76 He 2018
ISBN: 9780545902472
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor
Call Number: Curriculum Laboratory | KF8745.S67 A3 2018c
ISBN: 9781524771140
Publication Date: 2018-09-04