Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
In 1982, Scott O'Dell established The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The annual award of $5,000 goes to a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.
| Winners of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction |
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| Year | Recipient | Book Title | Publisher |
| 2009 | Laurie Halse Anderson |
Chains | Simon & Schuster |
| 2008 | Christopher Paul Curtis |
Elijah of Buxton | Scholastic |
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| 2007 | Ellen Klages |
The Green Glass Sea | Viking Children's Books |
| 2006 | Louise Erdrich |
The Game of Silence | HarperCollins Children's Books |
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| 2005 | A LaFaye |
Worth | Simon & Schuster |
| 2004 | Richard Peck |
The River Between Us | Dial Press |
| 2003 | Shelley Pearsall |
Trouble Don't Last | Alfred A Knopf |
| 2002 | Mildred D Taylor |
The Land | Phyllis Fogelman Books |
| 2001 | Janet Taylor Lisle | The Art of Keeping Cool | A Richard Jackson Book/Atheneum |
| 2000 | Miriam Bat-Ami | Two Suns in the Sky | Front Street/ Cricket Books |
| 1999 | Harriette Robinet | Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule | Jean Fritz/Atheneum |
| 1998 | Karen Hesse | Out of the Dust | Scholastic |
| 1997 | Katherine Paterson | Jip, His Story | Lodestar/Dutton |
| 1996 | Theodore Taylor | The Bomb | Harcourt, Brace |
| 1995 | Graham Salisbury | Under the Blood-Red Sun | Delacorte |
| 1994 | Paul Fleischman | Bull Run | Laura Geringer/ Harper-Collins |
| 1993 | Michael Dorris | Morning Girl | Hyperion |
| 1992 | Mary Downing Hahn | Stepping on the Cracks | Clarion |
| 1991 | Pieter Van Raven | A Time of Troubles | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 1990 | Carolyn Reeder | Shades of Gray | Macmillan |
| 1989 | Lyll Becerra de Jenkins | The Honorable Prison | Lodestar/Dutton |
| 1988 | Patricia Beatty | Charley Skedaddle | Morrow |
| 1987 | Scott O'Dell | Streams to the River, River to the Sea | Houghton Mifflin (Award money donated to Children's Book Council) |
| 1986 | Patricia MacLachlan | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Harper & Row |
| 1985 | Avi | The Fighting Ground | Lippincott |
| 1984 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Sign of the Beaver | Houghton Mifflin |
