A list of Jane Addams awarded books aimed at grades 7-8, sorted by Teaching Books.
The Strongest Heart
by Saadia Faruqi
(Finalist, 2026)
Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice
by Anna Lapera
(Finalist, 2025)
Safiyyah’s War
by Hiba Noor Khan
(Honor, 2025)
Warrior Girl
by Carmen Tafolla
(Finalist, 2024)
Mascot
by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell
(Honor, 2024)
Hands
by Torrey Maldonado
(Finalist, 2024)
Undercover Latina
by Aya de León
(Winner, 2023)
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
(Finalist, 2022)
Treasure of the World
by Tara Sullivan
(Finalist, 2022)
Brother’s Keeper
by Julie Lee
(Finalist, 2020)
Fighting Words
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
(Finalist, 2020)
Midnight Without a Moon
by Linda Williams Jackson
(Honor, 2018)
Wolf Hollow
by Lauren Wolk
(Honor, 2017)
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley, illustrated by P.J. Loughran
(Winner, 2016)
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
by Teri Kanefield
(Winner, 2015)
Sugar
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
(Winner, 2014)
A Long Walk to Water
by Linda Sue Park
(Winner, 2011)
The Road to Agra
by Aimee Sommerfelt and Ulf Aas
(Winner, 1962)
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
by Amy Lee-Tai, illustrated by Felicia Hoshino
(Winner, 2007)
The Crazy Man
by Pamela Porter
(Honor, 2006)
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924
by Deborah Hopkinson
(Honor, 2004)
The Same Stuff as Stars
by Katherine Paterson
(Honor, 2003)
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi
(Winner, 2003)
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope
by Beverley Naidoo and Desmond Tutu
(Winner, 2004)
Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
by Ellen Levine
(Honor, 2001)
Kids on Strike!
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
(Honor, 2000)
Soul Looks Back in Wonder
by Tom Feelings
(Honor, 1994)
Seedfolks
by Paul Fleischman and Judy Pedersen
(Honor, 1998)
Behind the Bedroom Wall
by Laura E. Williams and A. Nancy Goldstein
(Honor, 1997)
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
by Esther Hautzig
(Winner, 1969)
Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
by Ellen Levine
(Winner, 1994)
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
by Mary E. Lyons
(Honor, 1993)
Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust
by Milton Meltzer
(Honor, 1989)
The Short Life of Sophie Scholl
by Hermann Vinke
(Winner, 1985)
Lupita Mañana
by Patricia Beatty
(Honor, 1982)
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind
by Athena V. Lord
(Winner, 1982)
Men Against War
by Barbara Habenstreit
(Honor, 1974)
Viva La Raza!: The Struggle of the Mexican-American People
by Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
(Honor, 1975)
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich
by Alice Childress
(Honor, 1974)
Blue Mystery
by Margot Benary-Isbert
(Winner, 1957)
Words Matter: The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance
by Anita Fitch Pazner and Sophie Casson
(Finalist, 2026)
Black Star
by Kwame Alexander
(Honor, 2025)
Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
(Finalist, 2025)
Saving Sunshine
by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan
(Finalist, 2024)
World Made of Glass
by Ami Polonsky
(Honor, 2024)
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
by Sherri Winston
(Finalist, 2023)
Ida in the Middle
by Nora Lester Murad
(Finalist, 2024)
Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men
by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace
(Finalist, 2022)
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
(Honor, 2022)
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
by Alda P. Dobbs
(Finalist, 2022)
Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame
by Supriya Kelkar
(Honor, 2022)
Rick
by Alex Gino
(Finalist, 2020)
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
by Tiffany M. Jewell, illustrated by Aurélia Durand
(Finalist, 2020)
The Night Diary
by Veera Hiranandani
(Honor, 2019)
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi
(Honor, 2018)
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
(Honor, 2016)
Revolution
by Deborah Wiles
(Honor, 2015)
What Then, Raman?
by Shirley Lease Arora and Hans Guggenheim
(Winner, 1961)
Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại
(Honor, 2012)
Ninth Ward
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
(Honor, 2011)
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter
by Anne Laurel Carter
(Honor, 2009)
We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin
by Larry Dane Brimner
(Winner, 2008)
Sweetgrass Basket
by Marlene Carvell
(Honor, 2006)
I See the Rhythm
by Toyomi Igus, illustrated by Michele Wood
(Honor, 1999)
The Heaven Shop
by Deborah Ellis
(Honor, 2005)
Parvana’s Journey
by Deborah Ellis
(Commended, 2004)
(Winner, 2003)
The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
(Commended, 2004)
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Henri Sorensen
(Honor, 2001)
Bat 6
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
(Winner, 1999)
Habibi
by Naomi Shihab Nye
(Winner, 1998)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
(Honor, 1996)
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
by Russell Freedman
(Honor, 1994)
Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers
(Honor, 1992)
Trouble at the Mines
by Doreen Rappaport and Joan Sandin
(Honor, 1988)
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
by Mildred D. Taylor
(Honor, 1982)
The Eye of Conscience: Photographers and Social Change
by Milton Meltzer
(Honor, 1975)
Nilda
by Nicholasa Mohr
(Winner, 1974)
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
by Ilse Koehn
(Honor, 1978)
The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss
(Honor, 1973)
People Are Important
by Eva Knox Evans and Vana Earle
(Winner, 1953)
Find Her
by Ginger Reno
(Finalist, 2025)
Save Our Forest!
by Nora Dåsnes
(Finalist, 2025)
Indigo and Ida
by Heather Murphy Capps
(Finalist, 2024)
The Lost Year
by Katherine Marsh
(Winner, 2024)
Dream, Annie, Dream
by Waka T. Brown
(Finalist, 2023)
Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny
by Margarita Engle
(Finalist, 2023)
Alice Austen Lived Here
by Alex Gino
(Finalist, 2023)
How to Find What You’re Not Looking For
by Veera Hiranandani
(Winner, 2022)
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth
by Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson, and Torrey Maldonado
(Finalist, 2020)
Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World
by Cheryl Willis Hudson, illustrated by Erin K. Robinson
(Finalist, 2020)
Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights
by Beth Anderson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
(Finalist, 2020)
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
by Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson, and Tony Medina
(Honor, 2019)
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
by Russell Freedman and Laura Williams McCaffrey
(Honor, 2017)
Seeing Red
by Kathryn Erskine
(Honor, 2014)
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
by Kadir Nelson
(Honor, 2012)
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary
by Elizabeth Partridge
(Winner, 2010)
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom
by Margarita Engle
(Winner, 2009)
The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom
by Emily Arnold McCully
(Winner, 2008)
Night Boat to Freedom
by Margot Theis Raven, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
(Honor, 2007)
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
by Karen Blumenthal
(Winner, 2006)
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote
by Ann Bausum
(Winner, 2005)
Mud City
by Deborah Ellis
(Commended, 2004)
When My Name Was Keoko
by Linda Sue Park
(Honor, 2003)
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
by Ken Mochizuki, illustrated by Dom Lee
(Honor, 1998)
Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl
by Mildred Pitts Walter
(Honor, 1997)
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
by Jacqueline Woodson
(Honor, 1996)
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
by Jacqueline Woodson
(Honor, 1995)
Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa
by Sheila Gordon
(Honor, 1991)
Nobody Wants a Nuclear War: Story and Pictures
by Judith Vigna
(Winner, 1987)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
by Virginia Hamilton
(Winner, 1989)
Looking Out
by Victoria Boutis
(Winner, 1989)
The Island on Bird Street
by Uri Orlev
(Honor, 1985)
Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
by Milton Meltzer
(Winner, 1977)
Child of the Owl
by Laurence Yep
(Winner, 1978)
Song of the Trees
by Mildred D. Taylor, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
(Honor, 1976)
The Tamarack Tree
by Bea Holmes, illustrated by Betty Underwood
(Winner, 1972)
The Pecan Sheller
by Lupe Ruiz-Flores
(Finalist, 2026)
Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
by Ann E. Burg and Sophie Blackall
(Finalist, 2025)
Not Nothing
by Gayle Forman
(Winner, 2025)
Top Story
by Kelly Yang
(Finalist, 2024)
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
by Michael Leali
(Finalist, 2023)
Yonder
by Ali Standish
(Honor, 2023)
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac
(Finalist, 2022)
Ophie’s Ghosts
by Justina Ireland
(Finalist, 2022)
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, and Iman Geddy
(Finalist, 2020)
Ghost Boys
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
(Winner, 2019)
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story
by Caren Stelson
(Winner, 2017)
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
by Sy Montgomery
(Honor, 2013)
Sylvia & Aki
by Winifred Conkling
(Winner, 2012)
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone
(Honor, 2010)
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights & Civil Rights Set the Stage for MLK Jr.’s Final Hours
by Ann Bausum
(Honor, 2013)
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Russell Freedman
(Honor, 2007)
Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen
by Michelle Roehm McCann, Luba Tryszynka-Frederick, illustrated by Ann Marshall
(Honor, 2004)
A Group of One
by Rachna Gilmore
(Honor, 2002)
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
(Winner, 1990)
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
by Elizabeth Partridge
(Honor, 1999)
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
by Francisco Jiménez
(Honor, 1998)
Cezanne Pinto
by Mary Stolz
(Honor, 1995)
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Sheila Hamanaka
(Honor, 1996)
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
by Russell Freedman and Lewis Wickes Hine
(Winner, 1995)
The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism and Renewal
by Sheila Hamanaka
(Honor, 1991)
Journey to the Soviet Union
by Samantha Smith
(Honor, 1986)
Journey of the Sparrows
by Fran Leeper Buss
(Winner, 1992)
December Stillness
by Mary Downing Hahn
(Honor, 1989)
Children of the Maya
by Brent K. Ashabranner
(Honor, 1987)
First Woman in Congress, Jeannette Rankin
by Florence Meiman White
(Winner, 1981)
Doing Time: A Look at Crime and Prisons
by Phyllis Elperin Clark
(Honor, 1981)
We Are Mesquakie, We Are One
by Hadley Irwin
(Honor, 1981)
Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep
(Honor, 1976)
The Cay
by Theodore Taylor
(Winner, 1970)
Story of the Negro
by Arna Bontemps
(Winner, 1956)
Rainbow Round the World
by Elizabeth Yates
(Winner, 1955)
Alan and Naomi
by Myron Levoy
(Honor, 1978)
Berries Goodman
by Emily Cheney Neville
(Winner, 1966)
Meeting with a Stranger
by Duane Bradley
(Winner, 1965)
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
by Derrick Barnes
(Finalist, 2026)
I’m from Here Too
by Kashmira Sheth
(Finalist, 2025)
Swim Team
by Johnnie Christmas
(Honor, 2023)
A Seed in the Sun
by Aida Salazar
(Finalist, 2023)
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
by Angela Joy, illustrated by Janelle Washington
(Winner, 2023)
Unsettled
by Reem Faruqi
(Finalist, 2022)
Rez Dogs
by Joseph Bruchac
(Honor, 2022)
Linked
by Gordon Korman
(Finalist, 2022)
Land of the Cranes
by Aida Salazar
(Honor, 2021)
Piecing Me Together
by Renée Watson
(Honor, 2018)
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
by Margarita Engle
(Honor, 2015)
Brotherhood
by A.B. Westrick
(Honor, 2014)
We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
by Cynthia Y. Levinson
(Winner, 2013)
Birmingham Sunday
by Larry Dane Brimner
(Honor, 2011)
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
(Honor, 2010)
Birmingham, 1963
by Carole Boston Weatherford
(Honor, 2008)
Counting on Grace
by Elizabeth Winthrop
(Honor, 2007)
Weedflower
by Cynthia Kadohata
(Winner, 2007)
Poems to Dream Together / Poemas para sonar juntos
by Francisco X. Alarcón, illustrated by Paula Barragan
(Honor, 2006)
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
by Chris Crowe
(Honor, 2004)
The Color of My Words
by Lynn Joseph
(Honor, 2001)
The Heart of a Chief
by Joseph Bruchac
(Honor, 1999)
Paul Robeson
by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by George Ford
(Winner, 1976)
Esperanza Rising
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
(Winner, 2001)
The Birchbark House
by Louise Erdrich
(Honor, 2000)
This Land Is My Land
by George Littlechild
(Winner, 1994)
Shades of Gray
by Carolyn Reeder
(Honor, 1990)
Children as Teachers of Peace
by Gerald G. Jampolsky
(Commended, 1983)
Taste of Salt
by Frances Temple
(Winner, 1993)
The Big Book for Peace
by Marilyn Sachs
(Winner, 1991)
Waiting for the Rain
by Sheila Gordon
(Winner, 1988)
Rain of Fire
by Marion Dane Bauer
(Winner, 1984)
All the Colors of the Race
by Arnold Adoff, illustrated by John Steptoe
(Commended, 1983)
People at the Edge of the World: The Ohlone of Central California
by Betty Morrow and Shahid Naeem
(Honor, 1983)
Chase Me, Catch Nobody!
by Erik Christian Haugaard
(Honor, 1981)
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
by David Kherdian
(Winner, 1980)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
(Honor, 1977)
Z for Zachariah
by Robert C. O’Brien
(Honor, 1976)
The Riddle of Racism
by S. Carl Hirsch
(Winner, 1973)
Queenie Peavy
by Robert Burch and Jerry Lazare
(Winner, 1967)
Champions of Peace: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
by Edith Patterson Meyer
(Winner, 1960)
A World Worth Saving
by Kyle Lukoff
(Finalist, 2026)
Barracoon
by Zora Neale Hurston, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, and Ibram X. Kendi
(Finalist, 2025)
School Trip
by Jerry Craft
(Finalist, 2024)
Land of Broken Promises
by Jane Kuo
(Finalist, 2024)
The First Rule of Climate Club
by Carrie Firestone
(Finalist, 2023)
The Last Beekeeper
by Pablo Cartaya
(Finalist, 2023)
Fight Back
by A.M. Dassu
(Finalist, 2023)
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Sonja Cherry-Paul, illustrated by Rachelle Baker
(Finalist, 2022)
Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
(Finalist, 2022)
Show Me a Sign
by Ann Clare Lezotte
(Finalist, 2020)
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
(Finalist, 2020)
The Enemy
by Sara Holbrook
(Winner, 2018)
Full Cicada Moon
by Marilyn Hilton
(Honor, 2016)
Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914
by John Hendrix
(Honor, 2015)
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
by Claire A. Nivola
(Winner, 2009)
Elijah of Buxton
by Christopher Paul Curtis
(Honor, 2008)
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
by Tim Tingle, illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges
(Honor, 2007)
A Pocket Full of Seeds
by Marilyn Sachs
(Honor, 1974)
True Believer
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
(Honor, 2002)
The Composition
by Antonio Skarmeta and Alfonso Ruano
(Winner, 2001)
No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa
by Tim McKee
(Honor, 1999)
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America’s Peace Seekers
by Milton Meltzer
(Winner, 1986)
The Other Side of Truth
by Beverley Naidoo
(Winner, 2002)
Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
by Harriette Gillem Robinet
(Honor, 2001)
Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges and Margo Lundell
(Winner, 2000)
Growing Up in Coal Country
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
(Winner, 1997)
The Well
by Mildred D. Taylor
(Winner, 1996)
The Princess and the Admiral
by Charlotte Pomerantz, illustrated by Tony Chen
(Winner, 1975)
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
(Honor, 1990)
Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa
by Sheila Gordon
(Honor, 1991)
Hiroshima No Pika
by Toshi Maruki
(Winner, 1983)
The Bomb
by Sidney Lens
(Honor, 1983)
Natural History
by M.B. Goffstein
(Commended, 1980)
Jane Addams: Pioneer for Social Justice
by Cornelia Meigs
(Winner, 1971)
Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History Through Indian Art
by Jamake Highwater
(Winner, 1979)
Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass
by Ossie Davis
(Honor, 1979)
My Brother Sam Is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
(Honor, 1975)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson
(Honor, 1979)
Profiles in Courage
by John F. Kennedy
(Winner, 1964)
The Perilous Road
by William O. Steele
(Winner, 1958)