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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE 1969-2003
POLLY HORVATH |
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE 1969-2003
POLLY HORVATH |
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The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is presented each year in November to recognize the outstanding contribution to children's literature. The Award carries a $10,000 cash prize and the award committee will consider books of all genres written for children and young adults by U.S. writers with an emphasis on literary merit. The Young People's category was added to the National Book Awards in 1996. A Children's Books category had previously existed in the National Book Award/American Book Awards program from 1969 to 1983. Nancy Farmer's 2002 award-winning book, The House of the Scorpion, is a futuristic story about a clone struggling to understand his existence.
| 2003 | Polly Horvath | The Canning Season |
| 2002 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion |
| 2001 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer |
| 2000 | Gloria Whelan | Homeless Bird |
| 1999 | Kimberly Willis Holt | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
| 1998 | Louis Sachar | Holes |
| 1997 | Han Nolan | Dancing on the Edge |
| 1996 | Victor Martinez | Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vada |
AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
| 1983 | Jean Fritz | Homesick: My Story (Hardcover Fiction) |
| 1983 | Joyce Carol Thomas | Marked by Fire (Paperback Fiction) |
| 1983 | James Cross Giblin | Chimney Sweeps (Nonfiction) |
| 1983 | William Steig | Doctor De Soto (Hardcover Picture Book) |
| 1983 | Barbara Cooney | Miss Rumphius (Hardcover Picture Book) |
| 1983 | Mary Ann Hoberman (Text), Betty Fraser (Illus.) | A House Is a House for Me (Paperback Picture Book) |
| 1982 | Lloyd Alexander | Westmark (Harcover Fiction) |
| 1982 | Ouida Sebestyen | Words by Heart (Paperback Fiction) |
| 1982 | Susan Bonners | A Penguin Year (Nonfiction) |
| 1982 | Maurice Sendak | Outside Over There (Hardcover Picture book) |
| 1982 | Peter Spier | Noah's Ark (Paperback Picture Book) |
| 1981 | Betsy Byars | The Night Swimmers (Harcover Fiction) |
| 1981 | Beverly Cleary | Ramona and Her Mother (Paperback Fiction) |
| 1981 | Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence Mali | Oh, Boy! Babies (Nonfiction) |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
| 1979 | Katherine Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins |
| 1978 | Judith & Herbert Kohl | The View from the Oak |
| 1977 | Katherine Paterson | The Master Puppeteer |
| 1976 | Walter D. Edmonds | Bert Breen's Barn |
| 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | M. C. Higgins, the Great |
| 1974 | Eleanor Cameron | The Court of the Stone Children |
| 1973 | Ursula Le Guin | The Farthest Shore |
| 1972 | Donald Barthelme | The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine |
| 1971 | Lloyd Alexander | The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian |
| 1970 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw |
| 1969 | Meindert DeJong | Journey from Peppermint Street |
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