Nonfiction Award Archives

2020 Nonfiction Award Finalists Announced

Published December 5, 2019

Five books have been selected as finalists for the 2020 Nonfiction Award, which honors the best nonfiction books written for young adults.

The 2020 finalists are:

Free Lunch,written by Rex Ogle and published by Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance, written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee and published by Charlesbridge Teen
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust, written by Albert Marrin and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II, written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children’s Ship, written by Deborah Heiligman and published by Henry Holt, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

View the full list with annotations on the Nonfiction webpage. Publishers and library staff can purchase finalist seals to place on the finalist titles at www.ala.org/awardsgrants/seals.

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Published December 12, 2018

And here’s the second moment you all have been waiting for! The 2019 Nonfiction Award Finalists!

The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor written by Sonia Sotomayor
Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam written by Elizabeth Partridge
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler written and illustrated by John Hendrix
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction written and illustrated by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees written and illustrated by Don Brown