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Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winners

Jane Addams' awards are presented annually to the children's book that most effectively promotes the
cause of peace, social justice and world community.

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Award Years
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1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984
1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976
1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968
1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960

2008

The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCully (On order)
We are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimner (323.092 Bri)
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge(P Jud)
Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins(On order)

2007

A Place Where Sunflower Grows by Amy Lee-Tai (P Lee)
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata (On order)
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom by Tim Tingle(P Tin)
Night Boat to Freedom by Margot Theis Raven(P Rav)

2006

Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight Right ,by Jim Haskins (On order)
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America.
by Karen Blumenthal (796.082 Blu)

2005

Selavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope ,by Youme Landowne (P You)
Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote, by Anne Bausum (324.6230973 Bau)

2004

Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope. by Beverley Naidoo (F Nai)
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. by Kathleen Krull (on order)

2003

Parvana's Journey. by Deborah Ellis (F Ell)
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam. by Walter Dean Myers(on order)

2002

Martin's Big Words. by Doreen Rappaport (B King)
The Other Side of Truth. by Beverley Naidoo (F Nai)

2001

The Composition. by Antonio Skarmeta (P Ska)
Esperanza Rising. by Pam Munoz Ryan (F Rya)

2000

Through my eyes. by Margo Lundell (379.263092 Bri)
Molly Bannaky. by Alice McGill (P McG)

1999

Bat 6. by Virginia Euwer Wolff (F Wol)
Painted words : Marianthe's Story, One ; Spoken memories : Marianthe's Story, Two. by Aliki.(P Ali)

1998

Habibi.; by Naomi Shihab Nye (F Nye)
Seven Brave Women. by Betsy Hearne (P Hea)

1997

Wilma Unlimited. by Kathleen Krull (B Rudolph)
The Princess and the Admiral. by Charlotte Pomerantz (F Pom)

1996

The Well.; by Mildred Taylor (F Tay)
Middle Passage. by Tom Feelings (759.13 Fee)

1995

Kids at Work : Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor. by Russell Freedman (331.31092 Fre)
Sitti's Secret. by Naomi Shihab Nye (not in CMC)

1994

Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories.by Ellen Levine (on order)
This Land is My Land. by George Littlechild (on order)

1993

A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti. by Frances Temple (F Tem)
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky. by Faith Ringgold (F Rin)

1992

Journey of the Sparrows. by Fran Leeper Buss (on order)

1991

The Big Book for Peace. by Ann Durell (810.80358 Big)

1990

A Long Hard Journey; The Story of Pullman Porter. by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack (331.8811385 Mck)

1989

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave. by Virginia Hamilton (B Burns)

1988

Waiting for the Rain; A Novel of South Africa. by Sheila Gordon (on order)

1987

Nobody Wants a Nuclear War. by Judith Vigna (on order)

1986

Ain't Gonna Study War No More; The Story of America's Peace Seekers. (on order)

1985

The short life of Sophie Scholl. by Hermann Vinke (on order)

1984

Rain of Fire. by Marion Bauer (F Bau)

1983

Hiroshima No Pika.by Toshi Maruki (940.5426 Mar)

1982

A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind. by Athena V. Lord (F Khe)

1981

First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin. by Florence White (on order)

1980

The Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl. by David Kherdian (F Khe)

1979

Many smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History Through Indian Art. by Jamake Highwater (on order)

1978

Child of the Owl. by Laurence Yep (F Yep)

1977

Never to forget: the Jews of the Holocaust. by Milton Melzer (not in CMC)

1976

Paul Robeson. by Eloise Greenfield (not in CMC)

1975

Princess and the Admiral. by Charlotte Pomerantz (F Pom)

1974

Nilda. by Nicholasa Mohr (Main Library PS3563.O36.N5 1986)

1973

The Riddle of Racism.; by Carl Hirsch (not in CMC)

197

The Tamarack Tree. by Betty Underwood (F Und)

1971

Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice .by Cornelia Meigs (not in CMC)

1970

The Cay. by Theodore Taylor (F Tay)

1969

The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia. by Esther Hautzig (B Hautzig)

1968

The Little Fishes. by Erick Haugaard (F Hau)

1967

Queeenie Peavy.by Robert Burch (F Bur)

1966

Berries Goodman. by Emily Cheney Neville (not in CMC)

1965

Meeting with a Stranger. by Duane Bradley (not in CMC)

1964

Profiles in Courage: Young Readers Memorial Edition. by John F. Kennedy (B Kennedy)

1963

The Monkey and the Wild, Wild wind. by Ryerson Johnson (not in CMC)

1962

The Road to Agra. by Aimee Sommerfelt (not in CMC)

1961

What Then, Raman? by Shirley L. Arora (not in CMC)

1960

Champions of Peace. by Edith Patterson Meyer (not in CMC)

1959

No Award

1958

The Perilous road. by William O. Steele (F Ste)

1957

Blue Mystery. by Margot Benary-Isbert (not in CMC)

1956

Story of the Negro. by Arna Bontemps (E29.N3.B6 1964)

1955

Rainbow round the world. by Elizabeth Yates (not in CMC)

1954

Stick-in-the-mud. by Jean Ketchum (not in CMC)

1953

People are Important. by Eva Knox Evans (not in CMC)

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