Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award (1984—present ) is an annual award presented for
outstanding historical fiction books written in English by a citizen of the U.S., published by a
U.S. publisher, set in the New World, and written for children or young adults. For more
information visit the Scott O'Dell Web site. To help with your planning, check out this list of
winners categorized by historical period.
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2011: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia
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2010: The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
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2009: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
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2008: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
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2007: The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
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2006: The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich
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2005: Worth by A. LaFaye
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2004: A River Between Us by Richard Peck
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2003: Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
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2002: The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
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2001: The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle
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2000: Two Suns in the Sky by Miriam Bat-Ami
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1999: Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet
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1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
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1997: Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson
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1996: The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
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1995: Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
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1994: Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
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1993: Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
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1992: Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
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1991: A Time of Troubles by Pieter Van Raven
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1990: Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
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1989: The Honorable Prison by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
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1988: Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty
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1987: Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea by Scott O'Dell
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1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
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1985: The Fighting Ground by Avi
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1984: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare