From: BudNotBuddy_at_aol.com
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:40:18 -0400 (EDT)

In a message dated 8/6/2012 10:45:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mcelmeels_at_uwstout.edu writes:

So what do we want from authors -- what would make non-fiction something worthy of an award for literary excellence? I have to disagree with the premise that there is a serious lack of great YA nonfiction being published. Nonfiction certainly is not pumped out with the abandon granted YA fiction, but there is no question that every year there are numerous well-documented and well-told, award-caliber true stories being published for teens.

So far this year, I've read a number of nonfiction titles that stand up tall next to the YA fiction I've read (or, in so many cases, tried, unsuccessfully, to read). My best of the best to this point in 2012 include Charlayne Hunter-Gault's TO THE MOUNTAINTOP: MY JOURNEY THROUGH THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, Marc Aronson's MASTER OF DECEIT: J. EDGAR HOOVER AND AMERICA IN THE AGE OF LIES, and Cynthia Levinson's WE'VE GOT A JOB: THE 1963 BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S MARCH.

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