Awards search:YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader's Circle)

by Tracy Kidder
Paperback, 2009
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Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration

by Ann Bausum
Hardcover, 2009
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A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts

by Pamela S. Turner
Hardcover, 2008
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1968 (New York Times)

by Michael Kaufman
Hardcover, 2009
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Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl

by Albert Marrin
Hardcover, 2009
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland (Exceptional Social Studies Titles for Intermediate Grades)

by Sally M. Walker
Hardcover, 2009
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After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance

by Anne Sibley O'Brien
Hardcover, 2009
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))

by Phillip M Hoose
Hardcover, 2009
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))

by Tanya Lee Stone
Hardcover, 2009
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Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life

by Catherine Reef
Hardcover, 2009
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The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy

by James Cross Giblin
Hardcover, 2009
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Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary

by Elizabeth Partridge
Hardcover, 2009
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Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates

by Jill Rubalcaba
Hardcover, 2010
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Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World

by Marilyn Nelson
Hardcover, 2009
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Anne Frank: Her life in words and pictures from the archives of The Anne Frank House

by Menno Metselaar
Hardcover, 2009
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The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing

by Suzanne Jurmain
Hardcover, 2009
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Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement

by Rick Bowers
Hardcover, 2010
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Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces

by Hadley Dyer
Hardcover, 2010
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The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us

by Tanya Lee Stone
Hardcover, 2010
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They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hardcover, 2010
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

by Marc Aronson
Hardcover, 2010
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The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton

by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
Hardcover, 2010
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Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing

by Ann Angel
Hardcover, 2010
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Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I

by Ann Bausum
Hardcover, 2010
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan

by John Dau
Hardcover, 2010
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Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy

by Albert Marrin
Hardcover, 2011
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Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)

by Sue Macy
Hardcover, 2011
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition

by Karen Blumenthal
Hardcover, 2011
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Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust

by Ruth Thomson
Hardcover, 2011
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Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)

by Susan Goldman Rubin
Hardcover, 2011
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Wideness and Wonder: The Life and Art of Georgia O'Keeffe

by Susan Goldman Rubin
Hardcover, 2011
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Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

by Andrea Warren
Hardcover, 2011
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Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

by Rosalyn Schanzer
Hardcover, 2011
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Mysterious Bones: The Story of Kennewick Man

by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Hardcover, 2011
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Coretta Scott King Award - Author Winner Title(s))

by Kadir Nelson
Hardcover, 2011
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The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure

by Martin W. Sandler
Hardcover, 2012
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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

by Steve Sheinkin
Hardcover, 2012
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Lincoln's Grave Robbers

by Steve Sheinkin
Hardcover, 2013
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Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers (Junior Library Guild Selection)

by Tanya Lee Stone
Hardcover, 2013
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Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World (Exceptional Social Studies Title for Intermediate Grades)

by Sally M. Walker
Hardcover, 2012
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Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty (Carter G Woodson Award Book (Awards))

by Tonya Bolden
Hardcover, 2013
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Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty

by Russell Freedman
Hardcover, 2013
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"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

by James L. Swanson
Hardcover, 2013
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Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II

by Martin W. Sandler
Hardcover, 2013
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

by Steve Sheinkin
Hardcover, 2014
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia (Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (Awards))

by Candace Fleming
Hardcover, 2014
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The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi

by Neal Bascomb
Hardcover, 2019
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Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business--and Won!

by Emily Arnold McCully
Hardcover, 2014
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Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific

by Mary Cronk Farrell
Hardcover, 2014
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Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

by Susan Goldman Rubin
Hardcover, 2014
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