| Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children's Ship", written by Deborah Heiligman and published by Henry Holt, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group | 2020 - Finalist |
| A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II, written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 2020 - Finalist |
| A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust, written by Albert Marrin and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House | 2020 - Finalist |
| The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance, written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee and published by Charlesbridge Teen | 2020 - Finalist |
| 2020 Excellence in Nonfiction | 2020 - Winner |
| The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees | The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees | 2019 - Winner |
| The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor | The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor | 2019 - Finalist |
| Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction | Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction | 2019 - Finalist |
| The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler | The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler | 2019 - Finalist |
| Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam | Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam | 2019 - Finalist |
| Charleyboy, Lisa | #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women | 2018 - Finalist |
| Heiligman, Deborah | Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers | 2018 - Winner |
| Leatherdale, Mary Beth | #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women | 2018 - Finalist |
| Sandler, Martin W. | The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found | 2018 - Finalist |
| Arsonson, Marc | Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism | 2018 - Finalist |
| Budhos, Marina | Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism | 2018 - Finalist |
| Slater, Dashka | The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives | 2018 - Finalist |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History | Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History | 2017 - Finalist |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History | Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History | 2017 - Finalist |
| This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration | This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration | 2017 - Finalist |
| Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune | Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune | 2017 - Finalist |
| In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives | In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives | 2017 - Finalist |
| March: Book Three | March: Book Three | 2017 - Winner |
| Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | 2013 - Finalist |
| Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 | Moonbird | 2013 - Finalist |
| Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different | Steve Jobs | 2013 - Finalist |
| Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon | Bomb | 2013 - Winner |
| We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March | We’ve Got a Job | 2013 - Finalist |
| Sheinkin, Steve | The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery | 2012 - Winner |
| Aronson, Marc | Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science | 2012 - Finalist |
| Budhos, Marina | Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science | 2012 - Finalist |
| Blumenthal, Karen | Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition | 2012 - Finalist |
| Macy, Sue | Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) | 2012 - Finalist |
| Rubin, Susan Goldman | Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein | 2012 - Finalist |
| Rubalcaba, Jull | Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates | 2011 - Finalist |
| Robertshaw, Peter | Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates | 2011 - Finalist |
| Janeczko, Paul | The Dark Game: True Spy Stories | 2011 - Finalist |
| Bowers, Rick | Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement | 2011 - Finalist |
| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group | 2011 - Finalist |
| Angel, Ann | Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing | 2011 - Winner |
| Fleming, Candace | The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous and Stupendous Life of the Showman P. T. Barnum | 2010 - Finalist |
| Hoose, Phillip | Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice | 2010 - Finalist |
| Walker, Sally M. | Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland | 2010 - Finalist |
| Helligman, Deborah | Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith | 2010 - Winner |
| Stone, Tanya Lee | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | 2010 - Finalist |
