Longlist for 2023 Young Adult Science Book Award
AAAS and Subaru are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2023 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Young Adult Science Book category. The Prize celebrates outstanding science writing and illustration for children and young adults and is meant to encourage the writing and publishing of high-quality science books for all ages.
The longlist titles in the 2023 Young Adult Science Book category are:
Astroquizzical: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of Our Planets, Stars and Galaxies (Illustrated Edition), by Jillian Scudder. Illustrated by Claire Lenkova. Icon Books, 2021.
Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus, by Maia Weinstock. MIT Press, 2022.
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science, by Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain, by Ryan North. Riverhead Books, 2022.
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World, by Riley Black. St. Martin's Press, 2022.
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces, by Laurie Winkless. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland, by Jennifer McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian Glasspool. The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet, by Jo Handelsman and contributions by Kayla Cohen. Yale University Press, 2021.
Finalists for the 2023 Prize will be announced in November. The Prize winners will be announced in February.
The longlists for the Children’s Science Picture Book, Middle Grades Science Book, and Hands-On Science Book categories were announced earlier in the week.
