Middle Grade/YA Nonfiction Award Contenders
November 27, 2007
As member of a nominating committee for the Children's and YA Bloggers' Literary Awards, I want to call your attention to the long list of Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction Books under consideration. Our committee will winnow down this group to five titles only. Then the judging comittee takes over. Which of these will win the top prize?
This post, with all the book titles, continues after the jump.
1607: A New Look at Jamestown
written by Karen Lange
National Geographic Children's Books
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Across the Wide Ocean
written by Karen Romano Young
Greenwillow (HarperCollins)
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America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60s
written by Laban Hill
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Another Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Bad
written by Mark Gonyea
Henry Holt and Co.
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Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art
written by various artists
Philomel Books (Penguin Young Readers Group)
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Astrobiology (Cool Science)
written by Fred Bortz
Lerner
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Black and White Airmen: Their True History
written by John Fleischman
Houghton Mifflin
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The Dangerous Book for Boys
written by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden
HarperCollins
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The Daring Book for Girls
written by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
HarperCollins
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Dinosaur Eggs Discovered!: Unscrambling the Clues
written by Lowell Dingus (and others)
Twenty-First Century Books
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Face to Face with Grizzlies
written by Joel Satore
National Georgraphic Children's Books
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From Slave to Superstar of the Wild West: The Awesome Story of Jim Beckwourth
written by Tom DeMund
Legends of the West Publishing
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Grief Girl
written by Erin Vincent
Delacorte
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The Halloween Book of Facts and Fun
written by Wendie Old
Albert Whitman & Company
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Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer
written by Gretchen Woelfle
Calkins Creek (Boyds Mills)
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Let's Clear the Air: 10 Reasons Not to Start Smoking
written by Deanna Staffo
Lobster Press
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Marie Curie: Giants of Science #4
written by Kathleen Krull
Viking Juvenile
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Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail
written by Danica McKellar
Hudson Street Press
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Morris and Buddy: The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog
written by Becky Hall
Albert Whitman & Company
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Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens
Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative
Journalism
written by Ann Bausum
National Geographic Children's Books
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My Feet Aren't Ugly
written by Debra Beck
Beaufort Books
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Ox, House, Stick: The Story of Our Alphabet
written by Don Robb
Charlesbridge
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The Periodic Table: Elements With Style!
written by Adrian Dingle
Kingfisher
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Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials
written by Sneed B. Collard
Darby Creek Publishers
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The Real Benedict Arnold
written by Jim Murphy
Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin)
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Red: The Next Generation of American Writers—Teenage Girls—On What Fires Up Their Lives Today
written by Amy Goldwasser
Hudson Street Press
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The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story
written by Peter Lane Taylor
Kar-Ben Publishing
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Smart-Opedia
written by Eve Drobot
Maple Tree Press
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Sneeze!
written by Alexandra Siy
Charlesbridge
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The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter
written by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Holiday House
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The Social Climber's Guide to High School
written by Robyn Schneider
Simon Pulse
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Superfood or Superthreat: The Issue of Genetically Engineered Food
written by Kathlyn Gay
Enslow
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Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
written by Ibtisam Barakat
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Titanic: An Interactive History Adventure
written by Bob Temple
Capstone Press
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Tracking Trash
written by Loree Griffin Burns
Houghton Mifflin
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Ultimate Interactive Atlas of the World
written by Elaine Jackson (and others)
Scholastic
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
written by Peter Sis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin
written by Larry Dane Brimmer
Calkins Creek (Boyds Mills)
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The Whale Scientists: Solving the Mystery of Whale Strandings
written by Fran Hodgkins
Houghton Mifflin
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What's Eating You?: Parasites—The Inside Story
written by Nicola Davies
Candlewick
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Who Was First? Discovering the Americas
written by Russell Freedman
Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin)
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Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
written by Catherine M. Andronik
Henry Holt
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The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It Changed the World
written by Marc Aronson
National Geographic Children's Books
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Beatles, Beatlemania, and the Music That Changed the World
written by Bob Spitz
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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You Can Write a Story
written by Lisa Bullard
Two-Can Publishing, Inc.
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Nomination lists in the other seven categories of the Cybils:
Thanks for putting up the list, Susan!
Posted by: Jen Robinson | November 27, 2007 at 11:12 AM
My pleasure, Jen. There's lots of good reading on that list!
Posted by: Susan T. | November 27, 2007 at 01:01 PM