YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award - Gary Strong Curriculum Center - College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a November 1 - October 31 publishing year. The award winner is announced annually at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting Youth Media awards, with a shortlist of up to five titles named the first week of December.

Winners at the Curriculum Center or Main Library

2021 - The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming
Call Number: 629.13092 Fleming
2020 - Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
Call Number: FIC Ogle Free
ISBN: 9781324003601
2019 - The Unwanted by Don Brown
Call Number: GSCC GN 956.9104 Brown/MAIN LIBRARY DS98.6 .B76 2018
2017 - March. Book Three by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell
Call Number: Main Library E840.8.L43 A3 2016
Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and death. This book is about the Civil Rights Movement.
2013 - Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: GSCC 623.45119 Sheinkin
2012 - Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: GSCC FIC Sheinkin
2011 - Janis Joplin by Ann Angel
Call Number: GSCC 921 JOP

Honors at the Curriculum Center or Main Library

2019 - Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Call Number: GN FIC Krosoczka Hey
2017 - Hillary Rodham Clinton by Karen Blumenthal
Call Number: 921 Clinton
2017 - In the Shadow of Liberty by Kenneth C. Davis
Call Number: 306.362 Davis
2017 - Samurai Rising by Pamela S. Turner; Gareth Hinds (Illustrator)
Call Number: 952 Turner
Documents the true story of the legendary samurai, Minamoto Yoshitsune (1159-1189), who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and perfected his fighting skills
2017 - This Land Is Our Land by Linda Barrett Osborne
Call Number: 304.80973 Osborne
2016 - Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle; Edel Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Call Number: 811.54 Engle Enchanted
2016 - Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: 780.92 Anderson Symphony
2016 - This Strange Wilderness by Nancy Plain
Call Number: GSCC 921 Audubon
2015 - The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 940.54 Sheinkin Port
2014 - Go by Chip Kidd
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY NC1000.K53 2013
2011 - They Called Themselves the K. K. K. by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Call Number: GSCC 322.4 BAR
2010 - Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone; Margaret A. Weitekamp (Foreword by)
Call Number: GSCC 629.450092 Stone Almost
2010 - Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: GSCC 323.092 HOO