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Angel, Ann
Janis Joplin : Rise Up Singing
Forty years after her death, Janis Joplin remains among the most compelling and influential figures in rock history. Her story is one of a girl who struggled against rules and limitations, yet worked diligently to improve as a singer. [2011 Award Winner]
120 p. 2010
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Aronson, Marc
Sugar Changed the World : a Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science
Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. [2012 Finalist]
166 p. 2010
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
They Called Themselves the K.K.K. : the Birth of an American Terrorist Group
Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more. [2011 Finalist]
172 p. 2010
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Blumenthal, Karen.
Bootleg : Murder Moonshine and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
...when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol was ratified, it was hailed as the end of public drunkenness, alcoholism, and a host of other social ills related to booze. Instead, it began a decade of lawlessness, when children smuggled (and drank) illegal alcohol, the most upright citizens casually broke the law, and a host of notorious gangsters entered the public eye. [2012 Finalist]
154 p. 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Blumenthal, Karen.
Steve Jobs : the Man Who Thought Different
From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. A devoted husband, father, and Buddhist, he battled cancer for over a decade, became the ultimate CEO, and made the world want every product he touched. [2013 finalist]
310 p. 2012
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Bowers, Rick
Spies of Mississippi : the True Story of the Spy Network That Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation. [2011 Finalist]
120 p. 2010
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Fleming, Candace
The Great and Only Barnum : the Tremendous Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum
Biography of P.T. Barnum, showman and founder of the Barnum Bailey Circus. Readers can visit Barnum's American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 in. tall) and his tinier bride (32 in.); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum's legacy. [2010 Finalist]
151 p. 2009
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Heiligman, Deborah
Charles and Emma : the Darwins' Leap of Faith
Charles Darwin and his wife, Emma, were deeply in love and very supportive of each other, but their opinions often clashed. Emma was extremely religious, and Charles questioned God's very existence. [2010 Award Winner]
268 p. 2009
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Hoose, Phillip M.
Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice
Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral but little-known role in the Montgomery bus strike of 1955-1956, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company. [2010 Finalist]
133 p. 2009
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Hoose, Phillip M.
Moonbird : a Year On the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
In the course of his lifetime, B95 has flown the distance to the moon and halfway back! However, recent changes along his migratory circuit - changes caused mostly by human activity - have reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall? [2013 finalist]
148 p. 2012
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Hopkinson, Deborah.
Titanic : Voices from the Disaster
Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster. [2013 finalist]
289 p. 2012
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Janeczko, Paul B.
The Dark Game : True Spy Stories
From clothesline codes to surveillance satellites and cyber espionage, Janeczko uncovers two centuries' worth of true spy stories in U.S. history. [2011 Finalist]
248 p. 2010
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Levinson, Cynthia
We've Got a Job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March
The inspiring story of one of the greatest moments in civil rights history as seen through the eyes of four young people who were at the center of the action. We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary, middle, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail between May 2 and May 11, 1963. [2013 finalist]
176 p. 2012
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Macy, Sue
Wheels of Change : How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
Explore the role the bicycle played in the women's liberation movement. [2012 Finalist]
96 p. 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Rubalcaba, Jill
Every Bone Tells a Story : Hominin Discoveries Deductions and Debates
When did language begin? How did early humans populate the globe? By looking closely at four of the most significant hominins ever discovered, the authors explain how Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman have influenced debates about the nature of the earliest members of the family Hominidae. [2011 Finalist]
185 p. 2010
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Rubin, Susan Goldman
Music Was it : Young Leonard Bernstein
Biography of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. [2012 Finalist]
178 p. 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Sheinkin, Steve
Bomb : the Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos. [2013 winner]
266 p. 2012
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Sheinkin, Steve
The Notorious Benedict Arnold : a True Story of Adventure Heroism & Treachery
An introduction to the life of Benedict Arnold that highlights not only the traitorous actions that made him legendary, but also his heroic involvement in the American Revolution. [2012 Winner]
337 p. 2010
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Stone, Tanya Lee
Almost Astronauts : 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
When NASA was launched in 1958, 13 women proved they had as much of the right stuff as men to be astronauts, but their way to space was blocked by prejudice, insecurity, and a scrawled note written by one of Washington's most powerful men. This is the true story of the Mercury 13 women. [2010 Finalist]
133 p. 2009
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Walker, Sally M.
Written in Bone : Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s. [2010 Finalist]
144 p. 2009
Children's Nonfiction Book
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