A list of Jane Addams awarded books aimed at grades 5-6, sorted by Teaching Books.
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez
by María Dolores Águila
(Finalist, 2026)
Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice
by Anna Lapera
(Finalist, 2025)
Save Our Forest!
by Nora Dåsnes
(Finalist, 2025)
Warrior Girl
by Carmen Tafolla
(Finalist, 2024)
Mascot
by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell
(Honor, 2024)
Hands
by Torrey Maldonado
(Finalist, 2024)
Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women
by Christine McDonnell, illustrated by Victoria Tentler-Krylov
(Honor, 2023)
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)
Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge
by Ray Anthony Shepard, illustrated by Keith Mallett
(Honor, 2022)
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book
by Keila V. Dawson, illustrated by Alleanna Harris
(Finalist, 2022)
Brother’s Keeper
by Julie Lee
(Finalist, 2020)
Fighting Words
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
(Finalist, 2020)
The Teachers March!: How Selma’s Teachers Changed History
by Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace, illustrated by Charly Palmer
(Finalist, 2020)
Freedom Soup
by Tami Charles, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara
(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)
Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
by Linda Glaser and Claire A. Nivola
(Winner, 2011)
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
by James Rumford
(Honor, 2009)
Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
by Scott Nelson and Marc Aronson
(Honor, 2009)
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
by Amy Lee-Tai, illustrated by Felicia Hoshino
(Winner, 2007)
The Crazy Man
by Pamela Porter
(Honor, 2006)
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)
Lupita Mañana
by Patricia Beatty
(Honor, 1982)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson
(Honor, 1979)
Z for Zachariah
by Robert C. O’Brien
(Honor, 1976)
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich
by Alice Childress
(Honor, 1974)
Blue Mystery
by Margot Benary-Isbert
(Winner, 1957)
The Strongest Heart
by Saadia Faruqi
(Finalist, 2026)
I’m from Here Too
by Kashmira Sheth
(Finalist, 2025)
Safiyyah’s War
by Hiba Noor Khan
(Honor, 2025)
Saving Sunshine
by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan
(Finalist, 2024)
World Made of Glass
by Ami Polonsky
(Honor, 2024)
To Boldly Go
by Angela Dalton and Lauren Semmer
(Finalist, 2024)
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
by Carole Boston Weatherford, Rob Sanders, illustrated by Byron McCray
(Winner, 2024)
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
by Sherri Winston
(Finalist, 2023)
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)
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb
by Veronica Chambers, illustrated by Rachelle Baker
(Finalist, 2020)
The Night Diary
by Veera Hiranandani
(Honor, 2019)
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi
(Honor, 2018)
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
by Susan E. Goodman, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
(Honor, 2017)
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)
Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan
by Jeanette Winter
(Winner, 2010)
We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin
by Larry Dane Brimner
(Winner, 2008)
Rickshaw Girl
by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan
(Honor, 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)
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
by Vera B. Williams
(Honor, 2002)
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)
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers
by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by Raúl Colón
(Honor, 2000)
Bat 6
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
(Winner, 1999)
Habibi
by Naomi Shihab Nye
(Winner, 1998)
The Day Gogo Went to Vote
by Elinor Batezat Sisulu, illustrated by Sharon Wilson
(Honor, 1997)
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)
Amifika
by Lucille Clifton
(Commended, 1978)
Song of the Trees
by Mildred D. Taylor, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
(Honor, 1976)
The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss
(Honor, 1973)
People Are Important
by Eva Knox Evans and Vana Earle
(Winner, 1953)
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
by Derrick Barnes
(Finalist, 2026)
The Black Mambas: The World’s First All-Woman Anti-Poaching Unit
by Kelly Crull
(Finalist, 2026)
Amil and the After
by Veera Hiranandani
(Finalist, 2025)
Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
(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)
Because of You, John Lewis
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Keith Henry Brown
(Finalist, 2023)
Alice Austen Lived Here
by Alex Gino
(Finalist, 2023)
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
by Peter Sís
(Finalist, 2022)
I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story
by Martha Brockenbrough, Grace Lin, illustrated by Julia Kuo
(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
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)
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
by Duncan Tonatiuh
(Winner, 2015)
Seeing Red
by Kathryn Erskine
(Honor, 2014)
Each Kindness
by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
(Winner, 2013)
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
by Kadir Nelson
(Honor, 2012)
Nicolas, Where Have You Been?
by Leo Lionni
(Honor, 1988)
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary
by Elizabeth Partridge
(Winner, 2010)
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)
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier
(Winner, 2002)
Molly Bannaky
by Alice McGill, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet
(Winner, 2000)
Hey, Little Ant
by Phillip Hoose, Hannah Hoose, illustrated by Debbie Tilley
(Honor, 1999)
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
by Ken Mochizuki, illustrated by Dom Lee
(Honor, 1998)
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
by Jacqueline Woodson
(Honor, 1996)
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
by Jacqueline Woodson
(Honor, 1995)
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky
by Faith Ringgold
(Winner, 1993)
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)
The Island on Bird Street
by Uri Orlev
(Honor, 1985)
Child of the Owl
by Laurence Yep
(Winner, 1978)
Berries Goodman
by Emily Cheney Neville
(Winner, 1966)
The Tamarack Tree
by Bea Holmes, illustrated by Betty Underwood
(Winner, 1972)
Stick-in-the-Mud: A Tale of a Village, a Custom & a Little Boy
by Jean Ketchum and Fred Ketchum
(Winner, 1954)
The Pecan Sheller
by Lupe Ruiz-Flores
(Finalist, 2026)
Find Her
by Ginger Reno
(Finalist, 2025)
Not Nothing
by Gayle Forman
(Winner, 2025)
That Flag
by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by Nikkolas Smith
(Honor, 2024)
Top Story
by Kelly Yang
(Finalist, 2024)
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
by Michael Leali
(Finalist, 2023)
Yonder
by Ali Standish
(Honor, 2023)
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book
by Tonya Bolden, illustrated by Eric Velasquez
(Finalist, 2023)
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac
(Finalist, 2022)
¡Mambo Mucho Mambo!: The Dance That Crossed Color Lines
by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Eric Velasquez
(Finalist, 2023)
Ophie’s Ghosts
by Justina Ireland
(Finalist, 2022)
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Laura Freeman
(Finalist, 2020)
The Blackbird Girls
by Anne Blankman
(Finalist, 2020)
Land of the Cranes
by Aida Salazar
(Honor, 2021)
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, and Iman Geddy
(Finalist, 2020)
Ghost Boys
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
(Winner, 2019)
Before She Was Harriet
by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James Ransome
(Honor, 2018)
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story
by Caren Stelson
(Winner, 2017)
The Whispering Town
by Jennifer Elvgren, illustrated by Fabio Santomauro
(Honor, 2015)
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909
by Michelle Markel, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
(Winner, 2014)
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)
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
(Honor, 2011)
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone
(Honor, 2010)
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II
by Lita Judge
(Honor, 2008)
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Russell Freedman
(Honor, 2007)
Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights
by James Haskins, illustrated by Benny Andrews
(Winner, 2006)
Henry and the Kite Dragon
by Bruce Edward Hall, illustrated by William Low
(Honor, 2005)
Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen
by Michelle Roehm McCann, Luba Tryszynka-Frederick, illustrated by Ann Marshall
(Honor, 2004)
The Village That Vanished
by Ann Grifalconi, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
(Honor, 2003)
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
(Winner, 1990)
All in a Day
by Mitsumasa Anno
(Honor, 1987)
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
by Elizabeth Partridge
(Honor, 1999)
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)
First Woman in Congress, Jeannette Rankin
by Florence Meiman White
(Winner, 1981)
The Wheel of King Asoka
by Ashok Davar
(Commended, 1978)
Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep
(Honor, 1976)
The Cay
by Theodore Taylor
(Winner, 1970)
Rainbow Round the World
by Elizabeth Yates
(Winner, 1955)
Meeting with a Stranger
by Duane Bradley
(Winner, 1965)
Words Matter: The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance
by Anita Fitch Pazner and Sophie Casson
(Finalist, 2026)
A Line Can Go Anywhere: The Brilliant, Resilient Life of Artist Ruth Asawa
by Caroline McAlister and Jamie Green
(Finalist, 2026)
Fake Chinese Sounds
by Jing Jing Tsong
(Finalist, 2025)
Black Star
by Kwame Alexander
(Honor, 2025)
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Frank Morrison
(Finalist, 2024)
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)
We Are Water Protectors
by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade
(Winner, 2021)
The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America
by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Alexandra Bye
(Finalist, 2020)
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, Olivia Gatwood, illustrated by Theodore Taylor, III
(Finalist, 2020)
A Wish in the Dark
by Christina Soontornvat
(Winner, 2021)
Piecing Me Together
by Renée Watson
(Honor, 2018)
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley
(Honor, 2017)
Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
by Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans
(Honor, 2016)
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)
Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts about Peace
by Anna Grossnickle Hines
(Honor, 2012)
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)
¡Si, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A.
by Diana Cohn, Paul Mirocha, illustrated by Francisco Delgado
(Honor, 2003)
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)
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)
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman
by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by David Diaz
(Winner, 1997)
Children as Teachers of Peace
by Gerald G. Jampolsky
(Commended, 1983)
Sitti’s Secrets
by Naomi Shihab Nye, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
(Winner, 1995)
Mrs. Katz and Tush
by Patricia Polacco
(Honor, 1993)
The Big Book for Peace
by Marilyn Sachs
(Winner, 1991)
Rain of Fire
by Marion Dane Bauer
(Winner, 1984)
All the Colors of the Race
by Arnold Adoff, illustrated by John Steptoe
(Commended, 1983)
Chase Me, Catch Nobody!
by Erik Christian Haugaard
(Honor, 1981)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
(Honor, 1977)
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)
Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
by Ann E. Burg and Sophie Blackall
(Finalist, 2025)
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)
She Caught the Light: Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer
by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated by Julianna Swaney
(Finalist, 2022)
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)
Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
by Veronica Chambers
(Honor, 2021)
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
(Finalist, 2020)
King and the Dragonflies
by Kacen Callender
(Finalist, 2020)
The Enemy
by Sara Holbrook
(Winner, 2018)
Steamboat School
by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by Ron Husband
(Winner, 2017)
Full Cicada Moon
by Marilyn Hilton
(Honor, 2016)
Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914
by John Hendrix
(Honor, 2015)
We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
(Honor, 2014)
Belle, the Last Mule at Gee’s Bend: A Civil Rights Story
by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Bettye Stroud, illustrated by John Holyfield
(Honor, 2012)
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families
by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
(Winner, 2012)
Ruth and the Green Book
by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
(Honor, 2011)
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)
Selavi, That Is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope
by Youme Landowne
(Winner, 2005)
The Composition
by Antonio Skarmeta and Alfonso Ruano
(Winner, 2001)
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)
Seven Brave Women
by Betsy Hearne, illustrated by Bethanne Andersen
(Winner, 1998)
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)
The Little Fishes
by Erik Christian Haugaard
(Winner, 1968)
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
(Honor, 1990)
Hiroshima No Pika
by Toshi Maruki
(Winner, 1983)
The Bomb
by Sidney Lens
(Honor, 1983)
Natural History
by M.B. Goffstein
(Commended, 1980)
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 Perilous Road
by William O. Steele
(Winner, 1958)
The Monkey and the Wild, Wild Wind
by Ryerson Johnson
(Winner, 1963)