YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalists Announced
Posted by: Courtney Jones
The brand-spanking-new YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction now has five inaugural finalists:
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, by Tanya Lee Stone
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith, by Deborah Heiligman
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous and Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum, by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Ray Fenwick
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland, by Sally M. Walker
The winner will be announced during Midwinter.
January 21st, 2010 at 5:50 pm
[...] inaugural winner of YALSA’s Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults was announced at Midwinter. The honor went to Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith. For [...]