Award
Winners
A list of nationally
recognized awards for children’s literature. Each list contains the winners of
the last five years that are available at the
Grace A. Dow Memorial
Library.
Presented annually for
excellence in literature for children and young adults.
2005 E
Grey Traction Man is Here
YA Shusterman The Schwa Was Here
YA 598.7 Hoose The Race to Save
the Lord God Bird
2004 E Gerstein The Man
Who Walked Between the Towers
YA
Almond The Fire-Eaters
YA
614.541 An American Plague
2003 E Root Big Momma Makes the World
J FIC Fine The Jamie and Angus Stories
J 947.7 Kalman Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
2002 E Graham “Lets Get a Pup!” Said Kate
YA Salisbury Lord of the Deep
JB Guthrie This Land Was Made for
You and Me
2001 E DeFelice Cold Feet
J 811.54 Carver Carver: A Life in Poems
JB Harrison The Longitude Prize
2000 E Johnson Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
YA Billingsley The Folk Keeper
JB Ralegh Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Carter G. Woodson Award
Presented by the National
Council for the Social Studies for the most distinguished children’s social science
books depicting ethnicity in the United States. http://www.christophers.org/awardsmm.html
2005 YA B Anderson The Voice that
Challenged a Nation
dnh Jim
Thorpe's Bright Path
dnh The
Civil Rights Act of 1964
2004 J 940.5317 Komatsu In America’s Shadow
JB Sacagawea Sacagawea
2003 JB Chevez, C. Cesar Chevez: The Struggle for Justice
2002 J 305.23 Cruz Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity
J 973.331 Hinkle Prince Estabrook: Slave and Soldier
JB Bibson Coming Home: Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Homerun Hitter
2001 E Weatherford The Sound That Jazz Makes
J 923.6 Pinkney Let It Shine: Stories of Black
Women Freedom Fighters
JB Sitting Sitting Bull and His
World
2000 JB Bridges Through My Eyes
JB
Kaiulani Princess
Ka’iulani
The Christopher Award
Presented annually to writers and illustrators whose work “affirms the highest values of the human spirit.”
http://www.christophers.org/awardsmm.html
2006 dnh Am I a Color Too?
E
Barber Game Day
B Morris I
Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets the Vote
J Fic Birney Friendship
According to Humphrey
dnh Hitch
2005 E Wilson Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo
J FIC Peck The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
J FIC VanDraanen Shredderman: Secret Identity
YA B Al-Windawi Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq
J 398.209561 Demi The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey
2004 E Bunting Little Bear’s Little Boat
E Reynolds The
Dot
JB Chavez Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
J FIC D’Adamo Iqbal
J FIC Lowry The
Silent Boy
2003 E Newman Mole
and the Baby Bird
E Teague Dear Mrs. Larue: Letters from
Obedience School
J FIC Gray The Ugly Princess
and the Wise Fool
YA Giff Pictures of Hollis Woods
J 940.5459 Left for Dead
2002 E Hest Kiss
Good Night
E McBrier Beatrice’s Goat
J FIC Creech Love That Dog
J FIC Fletcher Uncle Daddy
YA Wulffson Soldier X
YA Hesse Witness
The Edgar Award
Awarded by the Mystery Writers
of America to authors of distinguished work in the Best Juvenile Mystery
category. http://www.mysterywriters.org/
2006 J FIC Smith The Boys of San Joaquin
YA FIC Feinstein Last Shot
2005 J Balliett Chasing Vermeer
J
Hoobler In Darkness, Death
2004 JPB Naylor Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry
YA McNamee Acceleration
2003 YA Ericson Harriet Spies Again
YA Parker The
Wessex Papers, Vol. 1-3
2002 J FIC Eige Dangling
YA Wynne-Jones The Boy in the Burning House
2001 J FIC Dowell Dovey Coe
YA Alphin Counterfeit Son
2000 JPB Jones Night Flyers
YA Vande Never Trust a Dead Man
Awarded by the Society of
Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for the best fiction, nonfiction, and
picture book. http://www.scbwi.org/awards.htm
2005 YA
Pearson A Room on Lorelei Street
J 305.23 Freedman Children of the Great Depression
E Mora Doña Flor
2004 E
Hopkinson Apples
to Oregon
YA
Curtis Bucking
the Sarge
J
973.917 Cooper Dust to
Eat: Drought and Depression in the
1930’s
2003 E
Timberlake The Dirty Cowboy
YA
Spinelli Milkweed
J
759.5 Byrd Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer
2002 E
Wilson George
Hogglesberry: Grade School Alien
YA
Placide Fresh
Girl
JB
Guthrie This
Land Was Made for You and Me
2001 E
Lewis The
Shoe Tree of Chagrin
YA
Wolff True
Believer
J 941.5 Bartoletti Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish
Famine
2000 E
Kurtz River
Friendly River Wild
J
FIC Karr The
Boxer
J
940.5318 Levine Darkness
Over Denmark
Jane Addams Book Award
Presented annually since 1953
by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams
Peace Association to the children’s book that most effectively promotes the
causes of peace, social justice and world community. http://www.janeaddamspeace.org/index.asp
2005 E Landowne Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope
J 624.623 Bausum With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote
2004 JB Chavez, C. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
2003 J FIC Myers Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
YA Ellis Parvana’s Journey
2002 E Rappaport Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
YA Naidoo Other Side of Truth
2001 J FIC Ryan Esperanza
Rising
J FIC Skarmeta The Composition
Michael L. Printz Award
Presented annually for excellence in
literature for young adults. http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz,_Michael_L__Award.htm
2006 YA
Green Looking
for Alaska
2005 YA Rosoff How
I Live Now
2004 YA Johnson The
First Part Last
2003 FIC Chambers Postcards
from No Man’s Land
2002 YA
Na A Step from Heaven
2001 YA
Almond Kit’s Wilderness
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Awarded by the American Library Association for outstanding translated book for children.
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batchelderaward.htm
2006 YA FIC Holub An Innocent Soldier
2005 J FIC Stolz The Shadows of Ghadamès
2004 YA Halkin Run,
Boy, Run
2003 J FIC Funke The Thief Lord
2002 J FIC Gundisch How I Became an American
2001 J FIC Carmi Samir and Yonatan
The Orbis Pictus Award
Awarded since 1990 by the
National Council of Teacher of English to promote and recognize excellence in
nonfiction writing. http://www.ncte.org/elem/awards/orbispictus
2006 305.23 Freedman Children of the
Great Depression
2005 JB York York’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark: An African American’s Part
2004 YA 614.541 Murphy An American Plague
2003 JB Anderson When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
2002 J 941.5 Bartoletti Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine
2001 J 979.4 Stanley Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California
Presented annually for a work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher and set in the New World.
http://www.scottodell.com/sosoaward.html
2006 J FIC Erdrich The Game of Silence
2005 J
FIC LaFaye Worth
2004 YA
Peck A River
Between Us
2003 J
Pearsall Trouble
Don’t Last
2002
YA Taylor The
Land
2001
J FIC Lisle The
Art of Keeping Cool
Sibert Informational Book Medal
Awarded annually to the author
of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the
preceding year. http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/sibertmedal/Sibert_Medal.htm
2006 J 973.757 Secrets of a civil war submarine
2005 YA B Anderson The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson
2004 YA 614.541 Murphy An American Plague
2003 YA B Hitler Life and Death of
Adolf Hitler
2002 J 941.5081
Bartoletti Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine
2001 JB Ralegh Sir Walter
Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
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