Charles and Emma : the Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

• Almost Astronatus : 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
• Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
• The Great and Only Barnum : the Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum by Candace Fleming
• Written in Bone : Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker

Janis Joplin : Rise Up Singing by Ann Angel

• They Called Themselves the KKK : the Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Spies of Mississippi : the True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers
• The Dark Game : True Spy Stories by Paul Janeczko
• Every Bone Tells a Stony : Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates by Jill Rubalcaba & Peter Robertshaw

The Notorious Benedict Arnold : a True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin

• Sugar Changed the World : a Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science by Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos
• Bootleg : Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
• Wheels of Change : How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy
• Music Was IT : Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin

Bomb : the Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

• Steve Jobs : the Man Who Thought Different b Karen Blumenthal
• Moonbird : a Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
• Titanic : Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
• We've Got a Job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson

The Nazi Hunters : How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascom

• Go : a Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd
• Imprisoned : the Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin W. Sandler
• Courage Has No Color : the True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone
• The President Has Been Shot! : the Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson

Popular, a Memoir : Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek by Maya Van Wagenen

• Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
• The Family Romanov : Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
• Ida M. Tarbell : the Woman Who Challenged Big Business - and Won! by Emily Arnold McCully
• The Port Chicago 50 : Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin

Most Dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin

• Symphony for the City of the Dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
• Enchanted Air : Two Cultures, Two Wings : a Memoir by Margarita Engle
• The Strange Wilderness : the Life and Art of John James Audubon by Nancy Plain

March : Book Three by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin

• Hillary Rodham Clinton : a Woman Living History by Karen Blumenthal
• In the Shadow of Liberty : the Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis
• This Land is Our Land : a History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborn
• Samurai Rising : the Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner

Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

• Eyes of the World : Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism by Marc Aronson & Marina Tamar Budhos
• #NotYourPrincess : Voices of Native American Women by Mary Beth Leatherdale & Lisa Charleyboy
• The Whydah : a Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by Martin W. Sandler
• The 57 Bus : a True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

The Unwanted : Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown

• Boots on the Ground : America's War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge
• Hey, Kiddo : How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt With Family Addiction by Jarrett Krosoczka
• The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor
• The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix