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YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2022

The 2022 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults went to Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow. 5 books were finalists.

Winner

  1. Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrowsource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

  1. Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbertsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoosource (opens in a new tab)
  3. In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months and Years After the 9/11 Attacks by Don Brownsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfieldsource (opens in a new tab)

About the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

Winner and finalists (shortlist named each December) for every year since the award began in 2010, from YALSA's page for each year (2010-2023) and ALA's winner announcements, which list the finalists (2024-2025). Year is the award year YALSA uses (announced each January for books published Nov. 1-Oct. 31 before). Author field names the writers, then illustrators when credited.

Organization: Young Adult Library Services Association (American Library Association). Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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