[yalsa-bk] YA nonfiction compiled

Compiled by Erica Littlefield [elittlefield@lib.tfid.org]

After 9/11: America's war on terror

The curse of King Tut's tomb

In the shadow of no towers

Safe area Gorazde

T-Minus: The Race to the Moon by Jim Ottaviani.

And The Stuff of Life by Mark Schultz

Hill & Wang (publishers of The Stuff of Life) also have a great graphic
nonfiction book on The U.S. Constitution.

Michael Rosen, Shakespeare: His Work and His World

Michael Rosen, reteller, Illus by Jane Ray. Shakespeare´s Romeo and
Juliet or Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Illus by Sonia Leong, text
adaptor Richard Appignanesi, Amulet/Abrams 2007.

Ann Bausum, With Courage and Cloth: Winning the fight for a woman´s
right to vote

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees and Off to War: Voices of Soldiers'

Children by Deborah Ellis

Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice and The Race to Save the Lord God
Bird by Phillip Hoose

Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American
Immigration

Muckrakers by Ann Bausum

Encyclopedia of the End by Deborah Noyes

The Lincolns by Candace Fleming

Race: A History Beyond Black and White by Marc Aronson

Secret Subway and Lincoln through the Lens by Martin Sandler

The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb by Edward T.
Sullivan

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally
Walker

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong.

Long Way Gone/Beah

Between a Rock and a Hard Place/Ralston

Websites:

NCTE Orbis Pictus Awards--Links to present and past winners through 1990
http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People--PDF copies of
2000-2008 lists
are available. The most current list is published in the journal Social
Education.
http://www.socialstudies.org/notable

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12--Lists available from
1996 through
2009 http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/

ALSC's Sibert Award and Honor Books--Many titles of YA Interest
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/index.cfm

YALSA Quick Picks--Usually has a few good nonfiction suggestions
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/quickpicks/qphome.cfm