Christopher Award

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WorkCategoryYear
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Books for Young People2013
Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith by Robert Barron
2012
Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman
Ages 10-122011
Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion by Mo Willems
Preschool2011
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
Books for Adults2009
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler
Books for Adults2009
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their own Narratives of Emancipation by David W. Blight
Books for Adults2008
The Kite Runner [2007 film] by Marc Forster
Feature Film2008
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
Books for Adults2007
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
Books for Adults2007
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Books for Young People2007
How We Are Smart by W. Nikola-Lisa
Books for Young People2007
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
Books for Young People2007
Hero Cat by Eileen Spinelli
Books for Young People2007
Listen! by Stephanie S. Tolan
Books for Young People2007
My Life with the Saints by James Martin
2007
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benjamin Ajak
Books for Adults2006
Game Day by Tiki Barber
Books for Young People2006
Friendship According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
Books for Young People2006
Am I a Color Too? by Heidi Cole
Books for Young People2006
Hitch by Jeanette Ingold
Books for Young People2006
I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda Arms White
Books for Young People2006
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
2006
Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li
Books for Adults2005
Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura al-Windawi
Books for Young People2005
The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey by Demi
Books for Young People2005
Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen
Books for Young People2005
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
Books for Young People2005
Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo by Karma Wilson
Books for Young People2005
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie
Books for Adults2004
Little Bear's Little Boat by Eve Bunting
Books for Young People2004
Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo
Books for Young People2004
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
Books for Young People2004
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
Books for Young People2004
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
Books for Young People2004
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Books for Young People2003
The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool by Margaret Gray
Books for Young People2003
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Pete Nelson
Books for Young People2003
Mole and the Baby Bird by Marjorie Newman
Books for Young People2003
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague
Books for Young People2003
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede
2003
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Books for Young People2002
Uncle Daddy by Ralph Fletcher
Books for Young People2002
Witness by Karen Hesse
Books for Young People2002
Kiss Good Night, Sam by Amy Hest
Books for Young People2002
Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier
Books for Young People2002
Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson
Books for Young People2002
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot by Ken McGoogan
2001
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Books for Young People2001
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Books for Young People2001
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy
Books for Young People2001
The Mousery by Charlotte Pomerantz
Books for Young People2001
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen
Books for Young People2001
Good Luck, Mrs. K.! by Louise Borden
Books for Young People2000
I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! by Emma Chichester Clark
Books for Young People2000
A Symphony of Whales by Steve Schuch
Books for Young People2000
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
Books for Young People2000
Grandad's Prayers of the Earth by Douglas Wood
Books for Young People2000
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
1999
The Summer My Father Was Ten by Pat Brisson
Books for Young People1999
Shipwreck Season by Donna Hill
Books for Young People1999
Raising Dragons by Jerdine Nolen
Books for Young People1999
Mary on Horseback by Rosemary Wells
Books for Young People1999
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill
1999
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Books for Young People1998
The Silver Balloon by Susan Bonners
Books for Young People1998
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
Books for Young People1998
Milo and the Magical Stones by Marcus Pfister
Books for Young People1998
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
Books for Young People1998
Glennis, Before and After by Patricia Calvert
Books for Young People1997
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Books for Young People1997
The Log Cabin Quilt by Ellen Howard
Books for Young People1997
Irrepressible Spirit by Susan Kuklin
Books for Young People1997
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder
Books for Young People1997
Parallel Journeys by Eleanor H. Ayer
Books for Young People1996
Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Books for Young People1996
Mother Jones: One Woman's Fight for Labor by Betsy Harvey Kraft
Books for Young People1996
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski
Books for Young People1996
Prize in the Snow by Bill Easterling
Books for Young People1995
I'll See You When the Moon Is Full by Susi Gregg Fowler
Books for Young People1995
The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle by Gay Matthaei
Books for Young People1995
It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference: How They Do It - How You Can, Too! by Phillip M. Hoose
Books for Young People1994
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud van der Rol
Books for Young People1994
Rosie & the Yellow Ribbon by Paula Depaolo
Books for Young People1993
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Books for Young People1993
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Books for Young People1993
Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter
Books for Young People1993
A Year in Saigon: How I Gave Up My Glitzy Job in Television to Have the Time of My Life Teaching Amerasian Kids in Vietnam by Katie Kelly
Books for Adults1992
The Gold Coin by Alma Flor Ada
Books for Young People1992
Where Does God Live? Questions and Answers for Parents and Children by Rabbi Marc Gellman
Books for Young People1992
Stephen's Feast by Jean Richardson
Books for Young People1992
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli
Books for Young People1992
The Star Fisher by Laurence Yep
Books for Young People1992
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
1991
Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor
Books for Young People1991
So Much to Tell You by John Marsden
Books for Young People1990
Keeping a Christmas Secret by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Books for Young People1990
William and Grandpa by Alice Schertle
Books for Young People1990
Can the Whales Be Saved? by Philip Whitfield
Books for Young People1990
Looking the tiger in the eye : confronting the nuclear threat by Carl B. Feldbaum
Books for Young People1989
Family Farm by Thomas Locker
Books for Young People1989
The Good-bye Book by Judith Viorst
Books for Young People1989
Into a Strange Land: Unaccompanied Refugee Youth in America by Brent K. Ashabranner
Books for Young People1988
The Gold Cadillac by Mildred D. Taylor
Books for Young People1988
Humphrey's Bear by Jan Wahl
Books for Young People1988
Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood
Books for Young People1988
CLASS DISMISSED II by Mel Glenn
Books for Young People1987
The Purple Coat (Reading Rainbow Books) by Amy Hest
Books for Young People1987
Duncan & Dolores by Barbara Samuels
Books for Young People1987
The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
Books for Young People1986
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Books for Young People1986
Underdog by Marilyn Sachs
Books for Young People1986
Mt. Rushmore Story by Judith St. George
Books for Young People1986
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
Books for Young People1985
How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman
Books for Young People1985
Secrets of a Small Brother by Richard J. Margolis
Books for Young People1985
Picnic by Emily Arnold McCully
Books for Young People1985
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Books for Young People1984
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Books for Young People1984
The Nuclear Arms Race-Can We Survive It by Anne Weiss
Books for Young People1984
Drawing from Nature by Jim Arnosky
Books for Young People1983
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Books for Young People1983
A Formal Feeling by Zibby Oneal
Books for Young People1983
We Can't Sleep by James Stevenson
Books for Young People1983
My Mom Travels a Lot by Caroline Feller Bauer
Books for Young People1982
A Gift of Mirrorvax by Malcolm Mac Cloud
Books for Young People1982
The Islanders by John Rowe Townsend
Books for Young People1982
Encounter at Easton by Avi
Books for Young People1981
Son for a Day by Corinne Gerson
Books for Young People1981
All Times, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery by Milton Meltzer
Books for Young People1981
People by Peter Spier
Books for Young People1981
All together now by Sue Ellen Bridgers
Books for Young People1980
Frederick's Alligator by Esther Allen Peterson
Books for Young People1980
What Happened In Hamelin by Gloria Skurzynski
Books for Young People1980
Gentlehands by M. E. Kerr
Books for Young People1979
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Books for Young People1979
Panda Cake by Rosalie Seidler
Books for Young People1979
Chester Chipmunk's Thanksgiving by Barbara Williams
Books for Young People1979
A Twentieth Century Testimony by Malcolm Muggeridge
1979
Where's Your Head?: Psychology for Teenagers by Dale Carlson
Books for Young People1978
Come to the edge by Julia Cunningham
Books for Young People1978
Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
Books for Young People1978
The Seeing Stick by Jane Yolen
Books for Young People1978
Willy Bear by Mildred Kantrowitz
Books for Young People1977
How the Witch Got Alf by Cora Annett
Books for Young People1976
Anno's Alphabet by Mitsumasa Anno
Books for Young People1976
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Books for Young People1976
Hurry Hurry Mary Dear by N. M. Bodecker
Books for Young People1976
The Champion of Merrimack County by Roger Wolcott Drury
Books for Young People1976
Bert Breen's Barn by Walter D. Edmonds
Books for Young People1976
Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel
Books for Young People1976
Pyramid by David Macaulay
Books for Young People1976
Dear Bill, Remember Me by Norma Mazer
Books for Young People1976
A Billion For Boris by Mary Rodgers
Books for Young People1975
Save the Mustangs! How a Federal Law Is Passed, by Anne Weiss
Books for Young People1975
My Grandson Lew by Charlotte Zolotow
Books for Young People1975
Walls: Resisting the Third Reich--One Woman's Story by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus
1975
I'll Protect You from the Jungle Beasts by Martha Alexander
Books for Young People1974
It's Raining Said John Twaining: Danish Nursery Rhymes (Aladdin Books) by N. M. Bodecker
Books for Young People1974
Gorilla Gorilla. by Carol Fenner
Books for Young People1974
This Star Shall Abide by Sylvia Engdahl
Books for Young People1973
The Book of Giant Stories by David L. Harrison
Books for Young People1973
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Books for Young People1973
Dominic by William Steig
Books for Young People1973
The Adventures of Obadiah (Picture Puffins) by Brinton Turkle
Books for Young People1973
Pocahontas and the Strangers by Clyde Robert Bulla
Books for Young People1972
Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas by Russell Hoban
Books for Young People1972
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed into Town by Arnold Lobel
Books for Young People1972
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
Books for Young People1972
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Books for Young People1972
Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century by Russell Kirk
1972
Something Beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta by Malcolm Muggeridge
1972
The Guardians by John Christopher
Books for Young People1971
The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Books for Young People1971
The Erie Canal by Peter Spier
Books for Young People1971
Sea and earth; the life of Rachel Carson by Philip Sterling
Books for Young People1971
Escape from Nowhere by Jeannette Eyerly
Books for Young People1970
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? by Milton Meltzer
Books for Young People1970
Tucker's Countryside by George Selden
Books for Young People1970
The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker by Vincent F Holden
Books for Adults1958
Karen by Marie Killilea
1953
Such a Vision of the Street by Eileen Egan
1600
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