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YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013

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YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013

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 BOMB: The Race to Build --- and Steal --- the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin.

-Four other books were finalists for the award: STEVE JOBS: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal, MOONBIRD: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose, TITANIC: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson, and We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by by Cynthia Levinson.

Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin - History
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal - Biography
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose - Nonfiction
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson - Nonfiction

 

Packed with heart-stopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, loads of archival photographs on almost every page, and quotes from primary sources, this gripping story, which follows the Titanic and its passengers from the ship's celebrated launch at Belfast to her cataclysmic icy end, is sure to thrill and move readers.

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson - Nonfiction