Josette Frank Award

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The Josette Frank Award has been given annually since 1943. From 1943 to 1997 it was called the "Children's Book Award." Josette Frank, the editor of many anthologies for children, served for many years as the Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America. This award for fiction 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. The prize to the author of the award book has been generously provided by the Florence L. Miller Memorial Fund.

[edit] Past winners

2004

Ida B and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly)Save the World by Katherine Hannigan (Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers)

2003

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury USA Children's Books)

2002

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney (Delacorte Press)

Jericho Walls by Kristi Collier (Henry Holt & Co.)

2001

Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers)

2000

Because of Winn-Dixie by KateDiCamillo (Candlewick)

1999

Figuring Out Frances (Gina Willner-Pardo-Clarion Books)

1998

My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt (Henry Holt & Co.)

1997

No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa by Beverley Naidoo (HarperCollins)

1996

The Cuckoo's Child by Suzanne Freeman (Greenwillow Books)

1995

Music from a Place Called Half Moon by Jerrie Oughton (Houghton Mifflin)

1994

Earthshine by Theresa Nelson (Orchard)

1993

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Henry Holt & Co.)

1992

Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury (Delacorte)

1991

Shadow Boy by Susan E. Kirby (Orchard)

1990

Secret City, USA by Felice Holman (Scribner's)

1989

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder (Macmillan)

1988

The Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann Cameron (Knopf)

December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion)

1987

Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin)

1986

Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo (Lippincott)

1985

With Westie and the Tin Man by C.S. Adler (Macmillan)

1984

One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

1983

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton Mifflin)

The Solomon System by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)

1982

Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam)

1981

A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind by Athena Lord (Macmillan)

1980

A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen C. Wartski (Westminster)

1979

The Whipman is Watching by T.A. Dyer (Houghton Mifflin)

1978

The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel (Dial)

1977

The Pinballs by Betsy Byars (Harper)

1976

Somebody Else's Child by Roberta Silman (Warne)

1975

The Garden is Doing Fine by Carol Farley (Atheneum)

1974

Luke Was There by Eleanor Clymer (Holt/Rinehart & Winston)

1973

A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith (T.Y. Crowell)

1972

A Sound of Chariots Mollie Hunter (Harper)

1971

John Henry McCoy by Lillie D. Chafin (Macmillan)

1970

Rock Star by James Lincoln Collier (Four Winds)

Migrant Girl by Carli Laklan (McGraw-Hill)

1969

The Empty Moat by Margaretha Shemin (Coward-McCann)

1968

What It's All About by Vadim Frolov (Doubleday)

1967

The Contender by Robert Lipsyte (Harper)

1966

Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch (Viking)

1965

The Empty Schoolhouse by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)

1964

The High Pasture by Ruth Harnden (Houghton Mifflin)

1963

The Peaceable Revolution by Betty Schechter (Houghton Mifflin)

The Rock and the Willow by Mildred Lee (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)

1962

The Trouble With Terry by John Lexau (Dial)

1961

The Road to Agra by Aimee Sommerfelt (Criterion)

The Girl From Puerto Rico by Hila Colman (Morrow)

1960

Janine by Robin McKown (Messner)

1959

Jennifer by Zoa Sherburne (Morrow)

1958

South Town by Lorenz Graham (Follett)

1957

Shadow Across the Campus by Helen R Sattler (Dodd Mead)

1956

The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert de Jong (Harper)

1955

Plain Girl by Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt Brace & World)

Crow Boy by Taro Yashima (Viking)

1954

The Ordeal of the Young Hunter by Jonreed Lauritzen (Little Brown)

High Road Home by William Corbin (Coward-McCann)

1953

In a Mirror by Mary Stolz (Harper)

1952

Jareb by Miriam Powell (T.Y. Crowell)

Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)

1951

No Award

1950

Partners: The United Nations and Youth by Eleanor Roosevelt & Helen Ferris (Doubleday)

1949

Paul Tiber: Forester by Maria Gleit (Scribner)

1948

The Big Wave by Pearl Buck (John Day)

1947

Judy's Journey by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)

1946

Heart of Danger by Howard Pease (Doubleday)

1945

The Moved-Outers by Florence Cranell Means (Houghton Mifflin)

1944

The House by Margorie Hill Alee (Houghton Mifflin)

1943

Keystone Kids by John R Tunis (Harcourt, Brace & World)