YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2012
Awards
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2012
The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, established in 2010, honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a November 1st – October 31st publishing year.
-The winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults is THE NOTORIOUS BENEDICT ARNOLD: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin.
-Four other books were finalists for the award: BOOTLEG: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal, MUSIC WAS IT: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin, SUGAR CHANGED THE WORLD: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, and WHEELS OF CHANGE: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy.
