Year
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Author
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Title
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Result
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Ref.
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2010
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Deborah Heiligman
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Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
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Winner
|
[8]
|
Tanya Lee Stone
|
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
|
Finalist
|
Phillip Hoose
|
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
|
Candace Fleming
|
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum
|
Sally M. Walker
|
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
|
2011
|
Ann Angel
|
Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing
|
Winner
|
[9]
|
Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw
|
Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates
|
Finalist
|
Rick Bowers
|
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
|
Paul Janeczko
|
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories
|
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
|
They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
|
2012
|
Steve Sheinkin
|
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, by Treachery
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
Karen Blumenthal
|
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
|
Finalist
|
Susan Goldman Rubin
|
Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein
|
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
|
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
|
Sue Macy
|
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
|
2013
|
Steve Sheinkin
|
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
|
Winner
|
[11]
|
Phillip Hoose
|
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
|
Finalist
|
Karen Blumenthal
|
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
|
Deborah Hopkinson
|
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
|
Cynthia Levinson
|
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
|
2014
|
Neal Bascomb
|
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
|
Winner
|
[12]
|
Tanya Lee Stone
|
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
|
Finalist
|
Chip Kidd
|
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
|
Martin W. Sandler
|
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II
|
James L. Swanson
|
The President Has Been Shot! The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
|
2015
|
Maya Van Wagenen
|
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
|
Winner
|
[13]
|
Emily Arnold McCully
|
Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business -- and Won!
|
Finalist
|
Shane Burcaw
|
Laughing at My Nightmare
|
Candace Fleming
|
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
|
Steve Sheinkin
|
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
|
2016
|
Steve Sheinkin
|
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
|
Winner
|
[14]
|
Margarita Engle
|
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
|
Finalist
|
M.T. Anderson
|
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
|
Tim Grove
|
First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race
|
Nancy Plain
|
This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon
|
2017
|
John Lewis and Andrew Aydin with Nate Powell (Illus.)
|
March: Book Three
|
Winner
|
[15][16]
|
Karen Blumenthal
|
Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History
|
Finalist
|
Kenneth C. Davis
|
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
|
Pamela S. Turner with Gareth Hinds (Illus.)
|
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
|
Linda Barrett Osborne
|
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
|
2018
|
Deborah Heiligman
|
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
|
Winner
|
[17]
|
Mary Beth Leatherdale and Lisa Charleyboy
|
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
|
Finalist
|
Marc Aronson and Marina Tamar Budhos
|
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism
|
Dashka Slater
|
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
|
Martin W. Sandler
|
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
|
2019
|
Don Brown
|
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
|
Winner
|
[18][19]
|
Elizabeth Partridge
|
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
|
Finalist
|
Jarrett Krosoczka
|
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt With Family Addiction
|
Sonia Sotomayor
|
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor
|
John Hendrix
|
The Faithful Spy
|
2020
|
Rex Ogle
|
Free Lunch
|
Winner
|
[20]
|
Albert Marrin
|
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
|
Finalist
|
Elizabeth Wein
|
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
|
Lynn Curlee
|
The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance
|
Deborah Heiligman
|
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of The Children's Ship
|
2021
|
Candace Fleming
|
The Rise & Fall of Charles Lindbergh
|
Winner
|
[21]
|
Christina Soontornvat
|
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
|
Finalist
|
Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan
|
The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
|
John Rocco
|
How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure
|
Elizabeth Rusch
|
You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Democracy and Deliver Power to the People
|
2022
|
Gail Jarrow
|
Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
|
Winner
|
|
Brandy Colbert
|
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
|
Finalist
|
Paula Yoo
|
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
|
Don Brown
|
In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months and Years After the 9/11 Attacks
|
Amy Butler Greenfield
|
The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life
|
2023
|
Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes with Dawud Anyabwile (Illus.)
|
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
|
Winner
|
[22]
|
Rex Ogle
|
Abuela, Don't Forget Me
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Gail Jarrow
|
American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South
|
Ariel Henley
|
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome
|
Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau
|
Unequal: A Story of America
|
2024
|
Dashka Slater
|
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
Ariel Aberg-Riger
|
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
|
Thien Pham
|
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
|