Books in Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Book for Older Children

The Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality.

2024

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Lost Year	Katherine Marsh	Winner	Log In To Like
	World Made of Glass	Ami Polonsky	Honor	Log In To Like
	Mascot	Traci Sorell	Honor	Log In To Like

2023

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Undercover Latina	Aya de León	Winner	Log In To Like
	Swim Team	Johnnie Christmas	Honor	Log In To Like
	Yonder	Ali Standish	Honor	Log In To Like

2022

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	How to Find What You're Not Looking For	Veera Hiranandani	Winner	Log In To Like
	Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame	Supriya Kelkar	Honor	Log In To Like
	Rez Dogs	Joseph Bruchac	Honor	Log In To Like

2021

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Wish in the Dark	Christina Soontornvat	Winner	Log In To Like
	Land of the Cranes	Aida Salazar	Honor	Log In To Like
	Finish the Fight	Veronica Chambers	Honor	Log In To Like

2019

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Ghost Boys	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Winner	Log In To Like
	We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices	Wade Hudson	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Night Diary	Veera Hiranandani	Honor	Log In To Like

2018

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Enemy: Detroit 1954	Sara E. Holbrook	Winner	Log In To Like
	Fred Korematsu Speaks Up	Laura Atkins	Honor	Log In To Like
	Piecing Me Together	Renee Watson	Honor	Log In To Like
	Midnight Without A Moon	Linda Williams Jackson	Honor	Log In To Like

2017

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story	Caren Stelson	Winner	Log In To Like
	Wolf Hollow	Lauren Wolk	Honor	Log In To Like
	We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler	Russell Freedman	Honor	Log In To Like

2016

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March	Lynda Blackmon Lowery	Winner	Log In To Like
	Full Cicada Moon	Marilyn Hilton	Honor	Log In To Like

2015

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Girl From the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the Civil Rights Movement	Teri Kanefield	Winner	Log In To Like
	Revolution	Deborah Wiles	Honor	Log In To Like
	Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal	Margarita Engle	Honor	Log In To Like

2014

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Sugar	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Winner	Log In To Like
	Brotherhood	Anne Westrick	Honor	Log In To Like
	Seeing Red	Kathryn Erskine	Honor	Log In To Like

2013

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March	Cynthia Levinson	Winner	Log In To Like
	Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World	Sy Montgomery	Honor	Log In To Like
	Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours	Ann Bausum	Honor	Log In To Like

2012

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Sylvia & Aki	Winifred Conkling	Winner	Log In To Like
	Inside Out & Back Again	Thanhhà Lại	Honor	Log In To Like
	Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans	Kadir Nelson	Honor	Log In To Like

2011

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Long Walk to Water	Linda Sue Park	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Ninth Ward	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Honor	Log In To Like
	Birmingham Sunday	Larry Dane Brimner	Honor	Log In To Like

2010

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary	Elizabeth Partridge	Winner	Log In To Like
	Claudette Colvin	Phillip Hoose	Honor	Log In To Like
	Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream	Tanya Lee Stone	Honor	Log In To Like

2009

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom	Margarita Engle	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Shepherd's Granddaughter	Anne Laurel Carter	Honor	Log In To Like
	Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry	Scott Reynolds Nelson	Honor	Log In To Like

2008

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin	Larry Dane Brimner	Winner	Log In To Like
	Birmingham, 1963	Carole Boston Weatherford	Honor	Log In To Like
	Rickshaw Girl	Mitali Perkins	Honor	Log In To Like
	Elijah of Buxton	Christopher Paul Curtis	Honor	Log In To Like

2007

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Weedflower	Cynthia Kadohata	Winner	Log In To Like
	Counting on Grace	Elizabeth Winthrop	Honor	Log In To Like
	Freedom Walkers	Russell Freedman	Honor	Log In To Like

2006

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America	Karen Blumenthal	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Crazy Man	Pamela Porter	Honor	Log In To Like
	Sweetgrass Basket	Marlene Carvell	Honor	Log In To Like

2005

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote	Ann Bausum	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Heaven Shop	Deborah Ellis	Honor	Log In To Like

2004

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope	Beverley Naidoo	Winner	Log In To Like
	Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case	Chris Crowe	Honor	Log In To Like
	Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924	Deborah Hopkinson	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Breadwinner Trilogy	Deborah Ellis	Special Commendation	Log In To Like

2003

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Parvana's Journey	Deborah Ellis	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Same Stuff as Stars	Katherine Paterson	Honor	Log In To Like
	When My Name Was Keoko	Linda Sue Park	Honor	Log In To Like

2002

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Other Side of Truth	Beverley Naidoo	Winner	Log In To Like
	True Believer	Virginia Euwer Wolff	Honor	Log In To Like
	A Group of One	Rachna Gilmore	Honor	Log In To Like

2001

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Esperanza Rising	Pam Muñoz Ryan	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Color of My Words	Lynn Joseph	Honor	Log In To Like
	Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues	Harriette Gillem Robinet	Honor	Log In To Like
	Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews	Ellen Levine	Honor	Log In To Like

2000

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Through My Eyes	Ruby Bridges	Winner	Log In To Like
	Kids on Strike!	Susan Campbell Bartoletti	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Birchbark House	Louise Erdrich	Honor	Log In To Like

1999

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Bat 6	Virginia Euwer Wolff	Winner	Log In To Like
	No More Strangers Now	Tim McKee	Honor	Log In To Like
	Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange	Elizabeth Partridge	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Heart of a Chief	Joseph Bruchac	Honor	Log In To Like

1998

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Habibi	Naomi Shihab Nye	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child	Francisco Jiménez	Honor	Log In To Like
	Seedfolks	Paul Fleischman	Honor	Log In To Like

1997

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Growing Up In Coal County	Susan Campbell Bartoletti	Winner	Log In To Like
	Behind the Bedroom Wall	Laura Williams	Honor	Log In To Like
	Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl	Mildred Pitts Walter	Honor	Log In To Like

1996

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Well	Mildred D. Taylor	Winner	Log In To Like
	From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun	Jacqueline Woodson	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963	Christopher Paul Curtis	Honor	Log In To Like
	On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	Sheila Hamanaka	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Middle Passage	Tom Feelings	Special Commendation	Log In To Like

1995

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor	Russell Freedman	Winner	Log In To Like
	I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This	Jacqueline Woodson	Honor	Log In To Like
	Cézanne Pinto	Mary Stolz	Honor	Log In To Like

1994

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories	Ellen Levine	Winner	Log In To Like
	Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery	Russell Freedman	Honor	Log In To Like

1993

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti	Frances Temple	Winner	Log In To Like
	Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs	Mary E. Lyons	Honor	Log In To Like