Year |
Author |
Title |
Result |
Ref. |
2010 |
Deborah Heiligman |
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith |
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 |