Finalists: Non-fiction (Middle Grade and YA)

The Top Five, from a long list of 40:

Escape!
written by Sid Fleischman
Greenwillow

Freedom Walkers
written by Russell Freedman
Holiday House

Immersed in Verse
written by Alan Wolf
Lark Books

Isaac Newton
written by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by Boris Kulikov
Viking Juvenile

Team Moon
written by Catherine Thimmesh
Houghton Mifflin