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P A S T W
I N N E R S |
|
Year |
Title |
Author |
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2025 |
Life After Whale: The Amazing
Ecosystem of a Whale Fall |
Lynn Brunelle |
|
2024 |
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A
Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global
Celebrity |
Nicholas Day |
|
2023 |
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea
Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About
the Japanese American Incarceration |
Elizabeth Partridge |
|
2022 |
The People’s Painter: How Ben
Shahn Fought for Justice with Art |
Cynthia Levinson |
|
2021 |
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis
Mellifera |
Candace Fleming |
|
2020 |
Fry Bread: A Native American
Family Story |
Kevin Noble Maillard |
|
2019 |
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies:
How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science |
Joyce Sidman |
|
2018 |
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride
1961 |
Larry Dane Brimner |
|
2017 |
March: Book Three |
John Lewis and Andrew Aydin |
|
2016 |
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day
of the Dead Calaveras |
Duncan Tonatiuh |
|
2015 |
The Right Word: Roget and His
Thesaurus |
Jen Bryant |
|
2014 |
Parrots over Puerto Rico |
Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore |
|
2013 |
Bomb: The Race to Build—and
Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon |
Steve Sheinkin |
|
2012 |
Balloons over Broadway: The True
Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade |
Melissa Sweet |
|
2011 |
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's
Strangest Parrot |
Sy Montgomery |
|
2010 |
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who
Dared to Dream |
Tanya Lee Stone |
|
2009 |
We Are the Ship |
Kadir
Nelson |
|
2008 |
The Wall: Growing Up Behind
the Iron curtain |
Peter Sis |
|
2007 |
Team Moon: How 4000,000 people
Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon |
Catherine Thimmesh |
|
2006 |
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine:
Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley |
Sally M. Walker |
2005 |
The
Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the
Struggle for Equal Rights |
Russell
Freedman |
2004 |
An American Plague: The True and
Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 |
Jim Murphy |
2003 |
The
Life and Death of Adolf Hitler |
James
Cross Giblin |
2002 |
Black Potatoes: The Story of the
Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
2001 |
Sir
Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado |
Marc
Aronson |
