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Boston Globe-Horn Book Award – Nonfiction
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
Isabel Quintero
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Deborah Heiligman
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of Imperial Russia
Candace Fleming
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Steve Sheinkin
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Robert Byrd
Chuck Close: Face Book
Chuck Close with Amanda Freymann and Joan Sommers
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
Steve Sheinkin
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
Elizabeth Partridge
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
Candace Fleming
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Peter Sís
The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr
Nicolas Debon
If You Decide to Go to the Moon
Faith McNulty
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
Phillip Hoose
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Jim Murphy
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
Maira Kalman
This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Elizabeth Partridge
The Longitude Prize
Joan Dash
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Marc Aronson
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
Steve Jenkins
Leon’s Story
Leon Walter Tillage
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder with photographs
Walter Wick
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story
Andrea Warren
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
Natalie S. Bober
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Russell Freedman
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack
Talking with Artists compiled and edited
Pat Cummings
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
Cynthia Rylant
The Great Little Madison
Jean Fritz
The Way Things Work
David Macaulay
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
Virginia Hamilton
The Pilgrims of Plimoth
Marcia Sewall
Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History
Peggy Thomson
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
Rhoda Blumberg
The Double Life of Pocahontas
Jean Fritz
Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II
Daniel S. Davis
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944
Aranka Siegal
Building: The Fight Against Gravity
Mario Salvadori
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
David Kherdian
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
Ilse Koehn
Chance, Luck and Destiny
Peter Dickinson
Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade
Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok
