AAAS and Subaru are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2021 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 2021 Young Adult Science Book category are:

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, by Ainissa Ramirez. MIT Press, 2020.
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space, by Kevin Hand. Princeton University Press, 2020.
Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality, by Shelley Fraser Mickle. Imagine, 2020.
Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention, by Kathryn D. Sullivan. MIT Press, 2019.
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, by Alberto Cairo. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers, by Emily Levesque. Sourcebooks, 2020.
Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond, by Christopher Wanjek. Harvard University Press, 2020.
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change, by Daniel Mathews. Counterpoint Press, 2020.
Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands, by Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth. The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, by Lulu Miller. Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Finalists for the 2021 Prize will be announced in November 2020. The Prize winners will be announced in January 2021.

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.

Longlist for 2021 Young Adult Science Book Award