Books

Boston Globe Horn Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 33 books.


  1. The Notorious Benedict Arnold

    A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

    by Steve Sheinkin

    Year: 2011
    Category: Nonfiction
  2. Marching for Freedom

    Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary

    by Elizabeth Partridge

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  3. I Know Here

    by Laurel Croza, Matt James

    Year: 2010
    Category: Picture Books
  4. Nation

    by Terry Pratchett

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction and Poetry
  5. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Book 2

    The Kingdom on the Waves

    by M. T. Anderson

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction and Poetry
    Rank: Honor
  6. The Graveyard Book

    by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Chris Riddell

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction and Poetry
    Rank: Honor
  7. The Way We Work

    by David MacAulay

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Honor
  8. Almost Astronauts

    13 Women Who Dared to Dream

    by Tanya Lee Stone

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Honor
  9. The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary

    by Candace Fleming

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  10. Higher! Higher!

    by Leslie Patricelli

    Year: 2009
    Category: Picture Book
    Rank: Honor
  11. Old Bear

    by Kevin Henkes

    Year: 2009
    Category: Picture Book
    Rank: Honor
  12. Bubble Trouble

    by Margaret Mahy

    Year: 2009
    Category: Picture Books
    Rank: Winner
  13. Savvy: Book 1

    Savvy

    by Ingrid Law

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction and Poetry
  14. Dog and Bear: Book 1

    Dog and Bear

    by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

    Year: 2007
    Category: Picture Book
    Rank: Winner
  15. An American Plague

    The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

    by Jim Murphy

    Year: 2004
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  16. Feed

    by M. T. Anderson

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  17. Holes: Book 1

    Holes

    by Louis Sachar

    Year: 1999
    Category: Fiction
  18. The Hat

    by Jan Brett

    Year: 1998
  19. The Circuit: Book 1

    The Circuit

    Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

    by Francisco Jiménez

    Year: 1998
    Category: Fiction
  20. We're Going on a Bear Hunt

    by Michael Rosen

    Year: 1990
    Category: Picture Book
  21. Board Game: Book 1

    Jumanji

    by Chris Van Allsburg

    Year: 1981
  22. Earthsea

    A Wizard of Earthsea

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Year: 1968
    Category: Fantasy
  23. The Little Fishes

    by Erik Christian Haugaard

    Year: 1967
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  24. Carver

    A Life in Poems

    by Marilyn Nelson

  25. When You Reach Me

    by Rebecca Stead

    Category: fiction
    Rank: winner

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