Longlist for 2020 Young Adult Science Book Award

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AAAS and Subaru are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2020 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 2020 Young Adult Science Book category are:

• Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond, by Marcia Bartusiak. Yale University Press, 2018.

• Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable, by Seth Fletcher. Ecco, 2018.

• How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls: Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future, by David L. Hu. Princeton University Press, 2018.

• The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future, by Jon Gertner. Random House, 2019.

• The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature, by Nick Haddad. Princeton University Press, 2019.

• Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, by Rob Dunn. Basic Books, 2018.

• Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table, by Kit Chapman. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2019.

Finalists for the 2020 prize will be announced in November. The prize will be bestowed at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, W.A., February 13-16, 2020.

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.