Scott O'Dell Award

Given by O'Dell Committee

Other Names: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
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In 1982, Scott O'Dell established The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. In 1981 and 1982, no books of sufficient merit were published, so no award was given in 1982 or 1983. Since 1984, show more the award has been presented each year. The annual award of $5,000 goes to a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world. Award Website show less
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WorkYear
African Town by Charles Waters
2023
Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland
2022
All He Knew by Helen Frost
2021
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lại
2020
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2019
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk
2018
Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
2017
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
2016
Dash (Dogs of World War II) by Kirby Larson
2015
Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill
2014
Chickadee by Louise Erdrich
2013
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
2012
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
2011
The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
2010
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
2009
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
2008
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
2007
The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich
2006
Worth by A. LaFaye
2005
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
2004
Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
2003
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
2002
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle
2001
Two Suns in the Sky by Miriam Bat-Ami
2000
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet
1999
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1998
Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson
1997
The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
1996
Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
1995
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
1994
Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
1993
Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
1992
A Time of Troubles by Pieter Van Raven
1991
Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
1990
The Honourable Prison by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
1989
Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty
1988
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'Dell
1987
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1986
The Fighting Ground by Avi
1985
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
1984

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