Scott O'Dell Award Winners by the Year
2010 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
The Storm In the Barn
by Matt Phelan
Matt Phelan is the illustrator of many books for young readers, including ALWAYS by Ann Stott and THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY by Susan Patron, winner of the 2007 Newbery Medal. THE STORM IN THE BARN is his first graphic novel. He lives in Philadelphia.… read more
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2009 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cru… read more
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2007 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
The Green Glass Sea
by Ellen Klages
A backlist gem gets a brand-new look! It's 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a town that, officially, doesn't exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuz… read more
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2005 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Worth
by A Lafaye
After Nathaniel's leg is crushed in an accident, his father brings home an orphan boy, John Worth, to help work the fields. Worth has come to Nebraska from New York City on the Orphan Train, which brings homeless children west to find new lives. N… read more
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2004 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
The River Between Us
by Richard Peck
The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the dwindling Pruitt fami… read more
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2003 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Trouble Don't Last
by Pearsall- Shelley
Eleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hackler's slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he's ever known--until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and, tog… read more
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2002 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
The Land
by Mildred Taylor
Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award! Millions of fans have followed the Logan family in their seven-book series. Living in the South in the not-so-distant past, the Logans are the only black family to own farmland, while most of their black nei… read more
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2001 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
The Art Of Keeping Cool
by Janet Taylor Lisle
The Art of Keeping Cool is a children's book by Janet Tyler Lisle. It was named a Riverbank Review Book of Distinction, an ALA Notable Children's Book, a Horn Book Fanfare, and a selection of the Junior Library Guild and the Scholastic Book C… read more
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1998 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Out Of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust is a verse novel written by Karen Hesse. It was winner of the Newbery Medal in 1998, Scott O'Dell Award, an ALA Notable Children's Book, an ALA "Best book" a School Library Journal "best book of the year", … read more
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1997 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Jip
by Katherine Paterson
1996 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Bomb
by Theodore Taylor
It is 1946, a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and World War II is over. But the U.S. government has decided that further tests of atomic bombs must be conducted. Bikini Atoll is chosen for the testing site, so the people who have … read more
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1995 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Under the Blood-Red Sun
by Graham Salisbury
1992 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Stepping On the Cracks
by Mary Downing Hahn
1987 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
Streams To the River, River To the Sea
by Scott O'Dell
1985 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
The Fighting Ground
by Avi
The Fighting Ground is a 1984 children's book written by Edward Irving Wortis, under his pen name, Avi. The book is about a 13-year-old boy going off to fight in the American Revolutionary War, and covers two days, April 3, 1778 and April 4, 1778… read more
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1984 Winner Scott O'Dell Award
The Sign Of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
The Sign of the Beaver is a historical fiction children's novel by author Elizabeth George Speare, which has merited numerous literary awards. It was published in February 1983, and has become one of her most popular works. The Sign of the Beaver… read more
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