2026 Young Adult Non-Fiction Recommended Reading Awards

Conservation Success: Protecting Wild Spaces and Species with Hands-On Science Activities for Kids

by Laura Perdew 
Nomad Press

Farming is Female: Twenty Women Shaking Up the Field 

by Rachel Sarah 
Little Bee Books

Giant Rays of Hope

by Patricia Newman
Millbrook Press

Microbes to the Rescue: Using Bacteria, Algae and Fungi to Clean Up the Planet

by Yolanda Ridge
Orca Book Publishers

Octopus Ocean: Geniuses of the Deep

by Mark Leiren-Young
Orca Book Publishers

Our Plastic Problem: A Call for Global Solutions

by Megan Durnford
Orca Book Publishers

Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth

by Steve Mushin 
Learner Publishing Group