YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Winners!

For the past year, I served as chair of the 2012 Young Adult Library Services Association Excellence in Nonfiction Award Committee. I feel like I learned so much about both how to critically evaluate nonficton and manage a committee of people from different libraries, geographic locations and walks of life. It was truly a pleasure and a great deal of fun. In November of 2011, we announced our finalists and in January of 2012, we announced our winner. All of the books are listed below, and are available in the 6th Avenue library for your reading pleasure. Please stop by and check them out, they are all great reads!

benedictWINNER: The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin

FINALIST: Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science by Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos

FINALIST: Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal

FINALIST: Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy

FINALIST: Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin

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