Books in Children's Book Award - 1943-1996
An American children's literary award for fiction given annually by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education. It "honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally". Known as the Children's Book Award from 1943 to 1997, it was renamed in honor of Josette Frank, the editor of many anthologies for children and a former Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America.
1996
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cuckoo's Child | Suzanne Freeman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1995
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Music from a place called Half Moon | Jerrie Oughton | Winner | Log In To Like |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1994
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earthshine | Theresa Nelson | Winner | Log In To Like |
1993
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make Lemonade | Virginia Euwer Wolff | Winner | Log In To Like |
1992
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Blue Skin of the Sea | Graham Salisbury | Winner | Log In To Like |
1991
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Boy | Susan E. Kirby | Winner | Log In To Like |
1990
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secret City, USA | Felice Holman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1989
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Shades of Gray | Carolyn Reeder | Winner | Log In To Like |
1988
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Most Beautiful Place in the World | Ann Cameron | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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December Stillness | Mary Downing Hahn | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1987
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Rabble Starkey | Lois Lowry | Winner | Log In To Like |
1986
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journey to Jo'burg | Beverley Naidoo | Winner | Log In To Like |
1985
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| With Westie and the Tin Man | C.S. Adler | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers | Milton Meltzer | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1984
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One-Eyed Cat | Paula Fox | Winner | Log In To Like |
1983
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare | Winner | Log In To Like |
| The Solomon System | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1982
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homesick: My Own Story | Jean Fritz | Winner | Log In To Like |
1981
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind | Athena V. Lord | Winner | Log In To Like |
1980
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Boat to Nowhere | Maureen Wartski | Winner | Log In To Like |
1979
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Whipman is Watching | T. A. Dyer | Winner | Log In To Like |
1978
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Devil in Vienna | Doris Orgel | Winner | Log In To Like |
1977
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Pinballs | Betsy Byars | Winner | Log In To Like |
1976
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somebody Else's Child | Roberta Silman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1975
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Garden Is Doing Fine | Carol Farley | Winner | Log In To Like |
1974
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Was There | Eleanor Clymer | Winner | Log In To Like |
1973
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Taste of Blackberries | Doris Buchanan Smith | Winner | Log In To Like |
1972
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Sound of Chariots | Mollie Hunter | Winner | Log In To Like |
1971
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Henry McCoy | Lillie D. Chaffin | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Pair of Shoes | Aline Glasgow | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1970
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Star | James Lincoln Collier | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Migrant Girl | Carli Laklan | Winner | Log In To Like |
1969
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Empty Moat | Margaretha Shemin | Winner | Log In To Like |
1968
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What It's All About | Vadim Frolic | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Where's Daddy? A Story about Divorce | Beth Goff | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1967
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Contender | Robert Lipsyte | Winner | Log In To Like |
1966
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queenie Peavy | Robert Burch | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Curious George Goes to the Hospital | Margret Rey Rey | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1965
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Empty Schoolhouse | Natalie Savage Carlson | Winner | Log In To Like |
1964
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The High Pasture | Ruth Peabody Harnden | Winner | Log In To Like |
1963
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Peaceable Revolution | Betty Schechter | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Rock and the Willow | Mildred Lee | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1962
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Trouble With Terry | John Lexau | Winner | Log In To Like |
1961
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Road to Agra | Aimee Sommerfelt | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Girl From Puerto Rico | Hila Colman | Special Citation | Log In To Like |
1960
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janine | Robin McKown | Winner | Log In To Like |
1959
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer | Zoa Sherburne | Winner | Log In To Like |
1958
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Town | Lorenz Graham | Winner | Log In To Like |
1957
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Across the Campus | Helen Roney Sattler | Winner | Log In To Like |
1956
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The House of Sixty Fathers | Meindert DeJong | Winner | Log In To Like |
1955
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Crow Boy | Taro Yashima | Winner | Log In To Like |
| Plain Girl | Virginia Sorenson | Winner | Log In To Like |
1954
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Ordeal of the Young Hunter | Jonreed Lauritzen | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| High Road Home | William Corbin | Winner | Log In To Like |
1953
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In a Mirror | Mary Stolz | Winner | Log In To Like |
1952
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty and Ten | Claire Huchet Bishop | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Jareb | Miriam Powell | Winner | Log In To Like |
1950
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partners: The United Nations and Youth | Eleanor Roosevelt Ferris | Winner | Log In To Like |
1949
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Tiber: Forester | Maria Gleit | Winner | Log In To Like |
1948
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Big Wave | Pearl S. Buck | Winner | Log In To Like |
1947
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judy's Journey | Lois Lenski | Winner | Log In To Like |
1946
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart of Danger | Howard Pease | Winner | Log In To Like |
1945
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Moved-Outers | Florence Cranell Means | Winner | Log In To Like |
1944
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The House | Marjorie Hill Allee | Winner | Log In To Like |
1943
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keystone Kids | John R. Tunis | Winner | Log In To Like |