The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction is an annual American children's book award that recognizes historical fiction. It was established in 1982...
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established the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, an award of $5,000 that recognizes outstanding works of historical fiction. The winners must...
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Sarah, Plain and Tall (category Children's historical novels)
winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, the 1986 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and the 1986 Golden Kite Award. It explores themes of loneliness, abandonment...
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One Crazy Summer (novel) (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
Book Award finalist for young people's literature. In 2011 it won the Coretta Scott King Award for its author, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction...
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House series. A prominent award within children's historical fiction is the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Historical narratives have also found...
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Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book One Crazy Summer. She won the PEN/Norma Klein Award. Her...
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Jack Gantos (section Awards and honors)
contribution to American literature for children". Dead End also won the 2012 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and made the Guardian Prize longlist...
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The Sign of the Beaver (category American historical novels)
12, 2009. Retrieved November 30, 2009. Scott O'Dell. "Winners of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction". Archived from the original on December...
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also won the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the 2015 National Jewish Book Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award for her young adult book...
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Louise Erdrich (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
for Fiction for The Round House 2013 Rough Rider Award 2013 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Chickadee 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Richard...
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Dead End in Norvelt (category Children's historical novels)
American literature for children". It also won the annual Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. In Britain, where it was published by the Transworld...
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Laurie Halse Anderson (category Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period)
teenage Revolutionary War-era slave. The novel was awarded the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The second novel in the Seeds of America trilogy...
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Chickadee (novel) (category Children's historical novels)
critics for its storytelling, attention to detail, and teaching of Indigenous history and culture in the United States. It won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical...
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Shades of Gray (Reeder novel) (category Children's historical novels)
1989 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction ALA Notable Children's Book 1990 Jefferson Cup Award by the Virginia Library Association "Scott O'Dell Award...
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Lauren Wolk (section Awards)
Wolk won a Newbery Honor in 2017 for her novel Wolf Hollow and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2018 for Beyond the Bright Sea. Lauren Wolk...
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Charley Skedaddle (category Children's historical novels)
children's fiction book by Patricia Beatty. The book was first released in 1987 through Troll Associates, later winning the 1988 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins (category Children's historical novels)
children's novel by American writer Scott O'Dell, which tells the story of a girl named Karana, who is stranded alone for years on an island off the California...
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The Land (Taylor novel) (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
mid-twenties. This book won the 2002 Coretta Scott King Author Award and the 2002 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. This was originally the final book...
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The Bomb (Taylor novel) (category Children's historical novels)
Children's Books in October 1995. The book won the 1996 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. According to Taylor, the novel is based on his own experience...
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most popular novels, winning multiple literary awards including the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. A 1997 TV movie called Keeping the Promise...
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Mary Downing Hahn (category Edgar Award winners)
age of 44 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Stepping on the Cracks (1992) Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Closed for the Season...
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Ellen Klages (category American historical novelists)
in 2006. It won the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Portable Childhoods, a collection of her short fiction published by Tachyon Publications...
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The Honorable Prison (category Historical novels)
criticism of a Latin American government. It won the 1989 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The Honorable Prison has been compared to The Diary of...
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Reeder (1937–2012), children's author and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Glen Echo Park (Maryland) "Glen Echo". Maryland Manual...
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Beyond the Bright Sea (category American historical novels)
York Public Library Best Book of the Year 2018 Winner Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction 2018 "Children's Book Review: Beyond the Bright Sea by...
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Elizabeth George Speare (category American historical novelists)
for her third book, The Bronze Bow, published in 1961. The Sign of the Beaver (1984) was a Newbery Honor winner, and won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical...
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Elijah of Buxton (category Coretta Scott King Award-winning works)
a number of awards including a 2008 Newbery Honor, the 2008 Coretta Scott King Award, the 2008 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and the 2008...
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The Art of Keeping Cool (category Children's historical novels)
Elliot starts going to Abel Hoffman's house to sketch. Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, winner, 2001 Riverbank Review Book of Distinction, winner...
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won the 2012 Newbery Medal for the best children's book of 2011, as well as the 2012 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Gantos also wrote a sequel...
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Mildred D. Taylor (section Awards)
Book Award, Jane Addams Peace Council, 1996 The Land Coretta Scott King Award, 2002, ALA Best Book for Young Adults & Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction...
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