Josette Frank Award

Given by Children's Book Committee, Bank Street College Center for Children's Literature

96 Works 103,940 Books 4,694 Reviews 4.2
The Josette Frank Award is an annual children's literary award for fiction that honors a book or books of "outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and show more realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally. Known as the Children's Book Award from 1943 to 1997, it was renamed in honor of Josette Frank, the editor of many anthologies for children and a former Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (92), Special Citation (4)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (1), 2023 (1), 2022 (2), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (2), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (2), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (2), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (2), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (2), 1984 (1), 1983 (2), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (2), 1970 (2), 1969 (1), 1968 (2), 1967 (1), 1966 (2), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (2), 1962 (1), 1961 (2), 1960 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1957 (1), 1956 (1), 1955 (2), 1954 (2), 1953 (1), 1952 (2), 1950 (1), 1949 (1), 1948 (1), 1947 (1), 1946 (1), 1945 (1), 1944 (1), 1943 (1)
Announced:
February 1: 2024 Recent

Winner 92

WorkCategoryYear
The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt2024
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys2023
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline BoulleyOlder Readers2022
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la PeñaYounger Readers2022
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson2021
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn2020
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti2019
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson2018
The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones by Wendelin Van Draanen2017
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley2016
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy NelsonOlder Readers2015
Rain Reign by Ann M. MartinYounger Readers2015
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein2014
Wonder by R. J. Palacio2013
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz2012
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper2011
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly2010
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson2009
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate2008
The Manny Files by Christian Burch2007
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker2007
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles2006
Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan2005
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale2003
Jericho Walls by Kristi Collier2002
Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney2002
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. Williams2001
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo2000
Figuring Out Frances by Gina Willner-Pardo1999
My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt1998
No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo1997
The Cuckoo's Child by Suzanne Freeman1996
Music from a Place Called Half Moon (Laurel-Leaf Books) by Jerrie Oughton1995
Earthshine by Theresa Nelson1994
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff1993
Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury1992
Shadow Boy by Susan E. Kirby1991
Secret City U S A by Felice Holman1990
Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder1989
The Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann Cameron1988
December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn1988
Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry1987
Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo1986
With Westie and the Tin Man by Carole S. Adler1985
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox1984
The Solomon System by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor1983
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare1983
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz1982
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind by Athena V. Lord1981
A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski1980
The Whipman is Watching by Thomas A. Dyer1979
The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel1978
The Pinballs by Betsy Byars1977
Somebody Else's Child by Roberta Silman1976
The Garden Is Doing Fine by Carol J. Farley1975
Luke Was There by Eleanor Clymer1974
A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith1973
A Sound of Chariots by Mollie Hunter1972
John Henry McCoy by Lillie D. Chaffin1971
Rock Star by James Lincoln Collier1970
Migrant Girl1970
The Empty Moat by Margaretha Shemin1969
What It's All About by Vadim Frolov1968
The Contender by Robert Lipsyte1967
Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch1966
The Empty Schoolhouse by Natalie Savage Carlson1965
The high pasture by Ruth Peabody Harnden1964
The rock and the willow by Mildred Lee1963
The Peaceable Revolution. by Betty Schechter1963
The Trouble with Terry by Joan Lexau1962
The girl from Puerto Rico by Hila Colman1961
The Road to Agra by Aimée Sommerfelt1961
Janine by Robin McKown1960
Jennifer by Zoa Sherburne1959
South Town by Lorenz B. Graham1958
Shadow Across the Campus by Helen R. Sattley1957
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong1956
Plain Girl by Virginia Sorensen1955
Crow Boy by Taro Yashima1955
High Road Home by William Corbin1954
The Ordeal Of The Young Hunter by Jonreed Lauritzen1954
In a Mirror by Mary Stolz1953
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop1952
Jareb by Miriam Powell1952
Partners: the United Nations and youth, by Eleanor Roosevelt1950
Paul Tiber: Forester by Maria Gleit1949
The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck1948
Judy's Journey by Lois Lenski1947
Heart of Danger by Howard Pease1946
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means1945
The House by Marjorie Hill Allee1944
Keystone Kids by John R. Tunis1943

Special Citation 4

WorkCategoryYear
Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers by Milton MeltzerSpecial Citation1985
The pair of shoes by Aline GlasgowSpecial Citation1971
Where is Daddy? by Beth GoffSpecial Citation1968
Curious George Goes to the Hospital by H. A. ReySpecial Citation1966

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