Books in Golden Kite Award - Nonfiction
The Golden Kite Awards are given annually by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, an international children's writing organization, to recognize excellence in children’s literature. The award is a golden medallion showing a child flying a kite. Instituted in 1973, the Golden Kite Awards are the only children’s literary award judged by a jury of peers. Eligible books must be written or illustrated by SCBWI members, and submitted either by publishers or individuals.
2017
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| We Will Not Be Silent | Russell Freedman | Winner | Log In To Like |
2016
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir | Margarita Engle | Winner | Log In To Like |
2015
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia | Candace Fleming | Winner | Log In To Like |
2014
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Call of the Klondike | David Meissner | Winner | Log In To Like |
2013
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Noah Webster and His Words | Jeri Chase Ferris | Winner | Log In To Like |
2012
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart | Candace Fleming | Winner | Log In To Like |
2011
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Good, The Bad, and The Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact On Us | Tanya Lee Stone | Winner | Log In To Like |
2010
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Words to My Life's Song | Ashley Bryan | Winner | Log In To Like |
2009
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| A Life in the Wild | Pamela S. Turner | Winner | Log In To Like |
2008
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Muckrackers | Ann Bausum | Winner | Log In To Like |
2007
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Adventures of Marco Polo | Russell Freedman | Winner | Log In To Like |
2006
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Children of the Great Depression | Russell Freedman | Winner | Log In To Like |
2005
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Dust To Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s | Michael L. Cooper | Winner | Log In To Like |
2004
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer | Robert Byrd | Winner | Log In To Like |
2003
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie | Elizabeth Partridge | Winner | Log In To Like |
2002
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Winner | Log In To Like |
2001
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Darkness over Denmark | Ellen Levine | Winner | Log In To Like |
2000
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Space Station Science: Life in Free Fall | Marianne J. Dyson | Winner | Log In To Like |
1999
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life | Russell Freedman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1998
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Carmine's Story: A Book About a Boy Living with AIDS | Arlene Schulman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1997
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio | Peg Kehret | Winner | Log In To Like |
1996
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Abigail Adams | Natalie S. Bober | Winner | Log In To Like |
1995
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor | Russell Freedman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1994
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt | Russell Freedman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1993
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Long Road to Gettysburg | Jim Murphy | Winner | Log In To Like |
1992
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Wright Brothers | Russell Freedman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1991
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Boys' War: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War | Jim Murphy | Winner | Log In To Like |
1990
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Panama Canal: Gateway to the World | Judith St. George | Winner | Log In To Like |
1989
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Let There Be Light | James Cross Giblin | Winner | Log In To Like |
1988
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark | Rhoda Blumberg | Winner | Log In To Like |
1987
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Poverty in America | Milton Meltzer | Winner | Log In To Like |
1986
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun | Rhoda Blumberg | Winner | Log In To Like |
1985
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Walls: Defenses Throughout History | James Cross Giblin | Winner | Log In To Like |
1984
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Illustrated Dinosaur Dictionary | Helen Roney Sattler | Winner | Log In To Like |
1983
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Chimney Sweeps | James Cross Giblin | Winner | Log In To Like |
1982
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Blissymbolics | Elizabeth Helfman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1981
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Lives of Spiders | Dorothy Hinshaw Patent | Winner | Log In To Like |
1980
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Runaway Teens | Arnold Madison | Winner | Log In To Like |
1979
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| How I Came to Be a Writer | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Winner | Log In To Like |
1978
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Peeper, First Voice of Spring | Robert McClung | Winner | Log In To Like |