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Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winners

Description: The Jane Addams Childrens' Book Awards are given annually to those books of exceptional quality which promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races. #award #kids


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Year Category Award Title Author Date Added Action
1954 Medal Winner Stick-in-the-mud Jean Ketchum 05/25/2017
1982 Medal Winner A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind Athena V. Lord 05/25/2017
2024 Picture Book Winner A Song for the Unsung Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 01/12/2024
1995 Picture Book Medal Winner Sitti's Secrets Naomi Shihab Nye 05/25/2017
1985 Medal Winner The Short Life Of Sophie Scholl Hermann Vinke and Ilse Aichinger 05/25/2017
2022 Younger Children Medal Winner Shirley Chisholm Dared The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress Alicia D. Williams 10/04/2022
1998 Picture Book Medal Winner Seven Brave Women Betsy Hearne and Bethanne Andersen 05/25/2017
2015 Younger Children Medal Winner Separate Is Never Equal Duncan Tonatiuh 05/25/2017
2005 Younger Children Medal Winner Selavi, That Is Life Youme Landowne 05/25/2017
2023 Younger Children Honors Book Sanctuary Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women Christine McDonnell 04/10/2023
1962 Medal Winner The Road to Agra Armiee Sommerfelt 05/25/2017
1980 Medal Winner The Road from Home David Kherdian 05/25/2017
1973 Medal Winner The Riddle of Racism S. Carl Hirsch 05/25/2017
1984 Medal Winner Rain Of Fire Marion Dane Bauer 05/25/2017
1955 Medal Winner Rainbow Round the World Elizabeth Yates 05/25/2017
1967 Medal Winner Queenie Peavy Robert Burch 05/25/2017
1964 Medal Winner Profiles in Courage Young Readers Memorial Edition John F. Kennedy 05/25/2017
1975 Medal Winner The Princess And The Admiral Charlotte Pomerantz and Tony Chen 05/25/2017
2009 Younger Children Medal Winner Planting the Trees of Kenya Claire A. Nivola 05/25/2017
2007 Younger Children Medal Winner A Place Where Sunflowers Grow Amy Lee-Tai 05/25/2017
2018 Older Children Honors Book Piecing Me Together Renée Watson 05/15/2018
1958 Medal Winner The Perilous Road William O. Steele 05/25/2017
1953 Medal Winner People Are Important Eva Knox Evans 05/25/2017
1976 Medal Winner Paul Robeson (Crowell Biographies) Eloise Greenfield 05/25/2017
2003 Picture Book Medal Winner Patrol Walter Dean Myers 05/25/2017

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