Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
Scott O'Dell, himself a noted author of historical novels for young adults, created an award to recognize outstanding historical fiction. He established the award in 1982 and turned it over to the O'Dell award Committee which selects the winner from books intended for children or young people that is set in the New World and is published by a publisher in the United States. The book must also be written in English by a citizen of the United States.
O'Dell's purpose was to increase the interest of young readers in the history of the country and world that they lived in.
Winners
Year |
Title |
Author |
2005 |
Worth | A LaFaye |
2004 |
A River Between Us | Richard Peck |
2003 |
Trouble Don't Last | Shelley Pearsall |
2002 |
The Land | Mildred Taylor |
2001 |
The Art of Keeping Cool | Janet Taylor Lisle |
2000 |
Two Suns in the Sky | Miriam Bat-Ami |
1999 |
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule | Harriette Robinet |
1998 |
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse |
1997 |
Jip, His Story | Katherine Paterson |
1996 |
The Bomb | Theodore Taylor |
1995 |
Under the Blood-Red Sun | Graham Sailsbury |
1994 |
Bull Run | Paul Fleischman |
1993 |
Morning Girl | Michael Dorris |
1992 |
Stepping on the Cracks | Mary Downing Hahn |
1991 |
A Time of Trouble | Pieter Van Raven |
1990 |
Shades of Gray | Carolyn Reeder |
1989 |
The Honorable Prison | Lyll Becerra de Jenkins |
1988 |
Charley Skedaddle | Patricia Beatty |
1987 |
Streams to the River, River to the Sea | Scott O'Dell |
1986 |
Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
1985 |
The Fighting Ground | Avi |
1984 |
The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare |
