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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
2024 Chapter Book Winner The Lost Year Katherine Marsh 01/12/2024
2024 Picture Book Winner A Song for the Unsung Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 01/12/2024
2023 Books for Older Children category Winner Undercover Latina Aya De León 04/10/2023
1983 Special Commendation Children as Teachers of Peace Gerald G. Jampolsky 05/25/2017
1978 Special Commendation The Wheel of King Asoka Ashok Davar 05/25/2017
1978 Special Commendation Amifika Lucille Clifton and Thomas Digrazia 05/25/2017
1980 Special Commendation Natural History M. B. Goffstein 05/25/2017
2004 Special Commendation The Breadwinner Deborah Ellis 05/25/2017
1996 Special Commendation Middle Passage Tom Feelings and John Henrik Clarke 05/25/2017
1983 Special Commendation All The Colors Of The Race Arnold Adoff and John L. Steptoe 05/25/2017
2023 Younger Children Medal Winner Choosing Brave Angela Joy 01/13/2023
2022 Younger Children Medal Winner Shirley Chisholm Dared The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress Alicia D. Williams 10/04/2022
2022 Older Children Medal Winner How to Find What You're Not Looking For Veera Hiranandani 03/14/2022
2019 Younger Children Medal Winner The Day You Begin Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López 05/20/2021
2021 Younger Children Medal Winner We Are Water Protectors Carole Lindstrom 05/11/2021
2020 Older Children Medal Winner A Wish in the Dark Christina Soontornvat 03/24/2021
2019 Older Children Medal Winner Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes 03/24/2021
2018 Younger Children Medal Winner Malala's Magic Pencil Malala Yousafzai and Kerascoet 05/15/2018
2018 Older Children Medal Winner The Enemy Sara Holbrook 05/15/2018
2016 Younger Children Medal Winner New Shoes Susan Lynn Meyer and Eric Velasquez 05/15/2018
2004 Older Children Medal Winner Out of Bounds Beverley Naidoo 05/25/2017
1984 Medal Winner Rain Of Fire Marion Dane Bauer 05/25/2017
1998 Older Children Medal Winner Habibi Naomi Shihab Nye 05/25/2017
1953 Medal Winner People Are Important Eva Knox Evans 05/25/2017
1985 Medal Winner The Short Life Of Sophie Scholl Hermann Vinke and Ilse Aichinger 05/25/2017

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