Awards & Winners

Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards

Check all the winners of Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children presented under Jane Addams Children's Book Awards since 1993 .


Elizabeth Partridge

Honored for : Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don\u2019t You Grow Weary

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Elizabeth Partridge Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don\u2019t You Grow Weary
Tanya Lee Stone Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Phillip Hoose Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Margarita Engle

Honored for : The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Margarita Engle The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Anne Laurel Carter The Shepherd's Granddaughter
Scott Reynolds Nelson Ain't Nothing but a Man

Larry Brimner

Honored for : We Are One

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Emily Arnold McCully We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimner
Mitali Perkins Rickshaw Girl
Christopher Paul Curtis Elijah of Buxton
Carole Boston Weatherford Birmingham, 1963
Larry Brimner We Are One

Cynthia Kadohata

Honored for : Weedflower

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
Russell Freedman Freedom Walkers
Elizabeth Winthrop Counting on Grace

Karen Blumenthal

Honored for : Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Karen Blumenthal Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America
Pamela Porter The Crazy Man
Marlene Carvell Sweetgrass Basket

Ann Bausum

Honored for : With Courage and Cloth

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ann Bausum With Courage and Cloth
Deborah Ellis The Heaven Shop

Beverley Naidoo

Honored for : Out of Bounds

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Beverley Naidoo Out of Bounds
Christopher E. Crowe Getting Away with Murder
Deborah Hopkinson Shutting Out the Sky

Deborah Ellis

Honored for : Parvana's Journey

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Deborah Ellis Parvana's Journey
Katherine Paterson The Same Stuff as Stars
Linda Sue Park When my Name was Keoko

Beverley Naidoo

Honored for : The Other Side of Truth

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Beverley Naidoo The Other Side of Truth
Rachna Gilmore A Group of One
Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Honored for : Esperanza Rising

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Pam Muñoz Ryan Esperanza Rising
Lynn Joseph The Color of My Words
Ellen Levine Darkness Over Denmark
Harriette Gillem Robinet Walking to the Bus Rider Blues

Ruby Bridges

Honored for : Through My Eyes

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ruby Bridges Through My Eyes
Louise Erdrich The Birchbark House
Susan Campbell Bartoletti Kids on Strike!

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Honored for : Bat 6

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Virginia Euwer Wolff Bat 6
Joseph Bruchac The Heart of a Chief
Tim McKee No More Strangers Now
Elizabeth Partridge Restless Spirit

Naomi Shihab Nye

Honored for : Habibi

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Naomi Shihab Nye Habibi
Francisco Jimenez The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Paul Fleischman Seedfolks

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Honored for : Growing Up in Coal Country

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Susan Campbell Bartoletti Growing Up in Coal Country
Laura E. Williams Behind the Bedroom Wall
Mildred Walter Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl

Mildred D. Taylor

Honored for : The Well

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mildred D. Taylor The Well
Jacqueline Woodson From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Sheila Hamanaka On the Wings of Peace
Christopher Paul Curtis The Watsons Go to Birmingham \u2013 1963

Russell Freedman

Honored for : Kids at Work

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Russell Freedman Kids at Work
Mary Stolz Cezanne Pinto
Jacqueline Woodson I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This

Ellen Levine

Honored for : Freedom's Children

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ellen Levine Freedom's Children
Russell Freedman Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

Frances Temple

Honored for : Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Frances Temple Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti
Mary E. Lyons Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs