Listed below are all of the 2009 nominees for the Non-Fiction: Middle Grade/Young Adult category.

Author

Title

After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance Anne Sibley O’Brien
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Tanya Lee Stone
Amy Tan: Weaver of Asian-American Tales (Authors Teens Love) Ann Angel
Anne Frank Case: Simon Wiesenthal’s Search for the Truth, The Susan Goldman Rubin
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 Charles C. Mann
Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet Alexandra Siy
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith Deborah Heiligman
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer James L. Swanson
Chelsey (Louder Than Words) Chelsey Shannon
Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books), The Heather Adamson
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip Hoose
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration Ann Bausum
Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities (For Kids series) Stephanie Stein Crease
Emily (Louder Than Words) Emily Smucker
Episodes: My Life as I See It Blaze Ginsberg
For Liberty: The Story of the Boston Massacre Tim Decker
Frog Scientist, The Pamela S. Turner
Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum, The Candace Fleming
Harper Lee (Up Close) Kerry Madden
Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet Harriet Rohmer
Hunt!: Can You Survive the Stone Age? (Step Into History) Julia Bruce
I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure Larry Smith
I and I Bob Marley Tony Medina
If I Had a Hammer: Building Homes and Hope with Habitat for Humanity David Rubel
Leaving Glorytown: One Boy’s Struggle Under Castro Eduardo F. Calcines
Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny Hill Harper
Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts, A Pamela S. Turner
Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From Catherine Thimmesh
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary Elizabeth Partridge
Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon Andrew Chaikin
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, The Michael Pollan
On the Texas Trail of Cabeza De Vaca Peter Lourie
Other Side: A Teen’s Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal, The Marley Gibson
Revolutionary War (Battle Box) Brown Reference Group
Rock ‘n’ Roll Soldier: A Memoir Dean Ellis Kohler
Sacred Mountain: Everest Christine Taylor-Butler
Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia (Scientists in the Field Series) Sy Montgomery
Say What?: The Weird and Mysterious Journey of the English Language Gena K. Gorrell
Story of the New York Jets, The Michael E. Goodman
The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust Karen Gray Ruelle
The Time Book: A Brief History from Lunar Calendars to Atomic Clocks Martin Jenkins
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World… One Child at a Time ( The Young Reader’s Edition) Greg Mortenson
Vermeer Interviews: Conversations with Seven Works of Art, The Bob Raczka
Vivian Vande Velde: Author of Fantasy Fiction (Authors Teens Love) Candie Moonshower
Washington at Valley Forge Russell Freedman
We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change Tim Flannery
Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About Westward Expansion Steve Sheinkin
Wizards and Witches (Fantasy Chronicles) Ann Kerns
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M. Walker
Years of Dust Albert Marrin
Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle Ruth Ashby