Life after Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall — Lynn Brunelle (2025) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos — Nathalie Alonso (2025) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II — Candace Fleming (2025) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival — Estelle Nadel, Sammy Savos, and Bethany Strout (2025) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills — Billy Mills and Donna Janell Bowman (2025) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity — Nicholas Day (2024) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
The Book of Turtles — Sy Montgomery (2024) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes — Traci N. Todd (2024) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider — Jessica Lanan (2024) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor — Martin W. Sandler (2024) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration — Elizabeth Partridge (2023) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement — Angela Joy (2023) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
A Seed Grows — Antoinette Portis (2023) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott — Mara Rockliff (2023) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs — Chana Stiefel (2023) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art — Cynthia Levinson (2022) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem — Colleen Paeff (2022) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown — Steve Sheinkin (2022) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know — Traci Sorell (2022) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate — Melissa Stewart (2022) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre — Carole Boston Weatherford (2022) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera — Candace Fleming (2021) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure — John Rocco (2021) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks — Suzanne Slade (2021) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team — Christina Soontornvat (2021) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story — Kevin Noble Maillard (2020) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World — Lori Alexander (2020) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality — Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy (2020) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir — Nikki Grimes (2020) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Hey, Water! — Antoinette Portis (2020) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science — Joyce Sidman (2019) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild — Catherine Thimmesh (2019) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America — Gail Jarrow (2019) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees — Don Brown (2019) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga — Traci Sorell (2019) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana — Michael Mahin (2019) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 — Larry Dane Brimner (2018) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix — Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee (2018) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Grand Canyon — Jason Chin (2018) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability — Shane Burcaw (2018) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem — Patricia Newman (2018) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
March: Book Three — John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (2017) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
Giant Squid — Candace Fleming (2017) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story — Caren Stelson (2017) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II — Albert Marrin (2017) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler — Russell Freedman (2017) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras — Duncan Tonatiuh (2016) · Children’s Nonfiction · winner · Source
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans — Don Brown (2016) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club — Phillip Hoose (2016) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March — Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley (2016) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement — Carole Boston Weatherford (2016) · Children’s Nonfiction · honor · Source