Books

Jane Addams Children's Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 182 books.


  1. Almost Astronauts

    13 Women Who Dared to Dream

    by Tanya Lee Stone

    Year: 2010
    Category: Older Children
    Finalist
  2. Claudette Colvin

    Twice Toward Justice

    by Phillip M. Hoose

    Year: 2010
    Category: Older Children
    Finalist
  3. Marching for Freedom

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

    by Elizabeth Partridge

    Year: 2010
    Category: Older Children
  4. Nasreen's Secret School

    A True Story from Afghanistan

    by Jeanette Winter

    Year: 2010
    Category: Younger Children
  5. Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride

    by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney

    Year: 2010
    Category: Younger Children
    Finalist
  6. You and me and home sweet home

    by George Ella Lyon

    Year: 2010
    Category: Younger Children
    Finalist
  7. Silent Music

    A Story of Baghdad

    by James Rumford

    Year: 2009
    Finalist
  8. Ain't Nothing but a Man

    My Quest to Find the Real John Henry

    by Marc Aronson, Scott Reynolds Nelson

    Year: 2009
    Finalist
  9. The Surrender Tree

    Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

    by Margarita Engle

    Year: 2009
  10. We Are One

    The Story of Bayard Rustin

    by Larry Dane Brimner

    Year: 2008
  11. Freedom Walkers

    The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    by Russell Freedman

    Year: 2007
    Finalist
  12. Counting on Grace

    by Elizabeth Winthrop

    Year: 2007
    Finalist
  13. Crossing Bok Chitto

    A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom

    by Tim Tingle

    Year: 2007
    Finalist
  14. Let Me Play

    The Story of Title IX, The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America

    by Karen Blumenthal

    Year: 2006
  15. Delivering Justice

    W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

    by James Haskins, Benny Andrews

    Year: 2006
  16. Sweetgrass Basket

    by Marlene Carvell

    Year: 2006
    Finalist
  17. The Crazy Man

    by Pamela Porter

    Year: 2006
    Finalist
  18. With Courage and Cloth

    Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote

    by Ann Bausum

    Year: 2005
  19. The Heaven Shop

    by Deborah Ellis

    Year: 2005
    Finalist
  20. Sequoyah

    The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing

    by James Rumford

    Year: 2005
    Finalist
  21. Girl Wonder

    A Baseball Story in Nine Innings

    by Deborah Hopkinson, Terry Wideners

    Year: 2004
    Finalist
  22. Getting Away with Murder

    The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

    by Chris Crowe

    Year: 2004
    Finalist
  23. Shutting Out the Sky

    Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924

    by Deborah Hopkinson

    Year: 2004
    Finalist
  24. Harvesting Hope

    The Story of Cesar Chavez

    by Kathleen Krull, Yuyi Morales

    Year: 2004
  25. The Breadwinner Trilogy

    by Deborah Ellis

    Year: 2004
    Category: Special Commendation
    Finalist
  26. When My Name Was Keoko

    by Linda Sue Park

    Year: 2003
    Finalist
  27. Patrol

    An American Soldier in Vietnam

    by Walter Dean Myers, Ann Grifalconi

    Year: 2003
  28. A Group of One

    by Rachna Gilmore

    Year: 2002
    Finalist

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