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The Scott O’Dell award, created by Scott O’Dell and Zena Sutherland in 1982 and now administered by Elizabeth Hall, goes annually to the author of a distinguished work of historical fiction for young people published by a U. S. publisher and set in the Americas. 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.
The Scott O'Dell Award Winners - 1984 - Present
All He Knew (Farrar Straus and Giroux), by Helen Frost, 2021.
Butterfly Yellow (HarperCollins), by Thanhhà Lại, 2020.
Finding Langston (Holiday House), by Lesa Cline-Ransome, 2019.
Beyond the Bright Sea (Dutton Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers), by Lauren Wolk, 2018.
Full of Beans (Random House Books for Young Readers), by Jennifer L. Holm, 2017.
The Hired Girl (Candlewick Press), by Laura Amy Schlitz, 2016.
Dash (Scholastic Press), by Kirby Larson, 2015.
Bo at Ballard Creek (Henry Holt and Co.), by Kirkpatrick Hill, 2014.
Chickadee (HarperCollins), by Louise Erdrich, 2013.
Dead End in Norvelt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Jack Gantos, 2012.
One Crazy Summer (Amistad), by Rita Williams Garcia, 2011.
The Storm in the Barn (Candlewick), by Matt Phelan, 2010.
Chains (Simon & Schuster), by Laurie Halse Anderson, 2009.
Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic), by Christopher Paul Curtis, 2008.
The Green Glass Sea (Viking Children's Books), by Ellen Klages, 2007.
The Game of Silence (HarperCollins Children's Books), by Louise Erdrich, 2006.
Worth (Simon & Schuster), A LaFaye, 2005.
The River Between Us (Dial Press), Richard Peck, 2004.
Trouble Don't Last (Alfred A. Knopf), Shelley Pearsall, 2003.
The Land (Phyllis Fogelman Books), Mildred D. Taylor, 2002.
The Art of Keeping Cool (A Richard Jackson Book/Antheneum), Janet Taylor Lisle, 2001.
Two Suns in the Sky (Front Street/Cricket Books), Miriam Bat-Ami, 2000.
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule (Jean Fritz/Antheneum), Harriette Robinette, 1999.
Out of the Dust (Scholastic), Karen Hesse, 1998.
Jip, His Story (Lodestar/Dutton), Katherine Patterson, 1997.
The Bomb (Harcourt, Brace), Theodore Taylor, 1996.
Under the Blood Red Sun (Delacorte), Graham Salisbury, 1995.
Bull Run (Laura Geringer/Harper-Collins), Paul Fleischmann, 1994.
Morning Girl (Hyperion), Michael Dorris, 1993.
Stepping on Cracks (Clarion), Mary Downing Hahn, 1992.
A Time of Troubles (Charles Scribner's Sons), Pieter Van Raven, 1991.
Shades of Gray (Macmillan), Carolyn Reeder, 1990.
The Honorable Prison (Lodestar/Dutton), Lyll Becca de Jenkins, 1989.
Charley Skedaddle (Morrow), Patricia Beatty, 1988.
Streams to the River, River to the Sea (Houghton Mifflin--Award money donated to Children's Book Council), Scott O'Dell, 1987.
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Harper & Row), Patricia MacLachlan, 1986.
The Fighting Ground (Lippincott), Avi, 1985.
The Sign of the Beaver (Houghton Mifflin), Elizabeth George Speare, 1984.
Additional Information: In 1981 and 1982, no books of sufficient merit were published, so no award was given in 1982 or 1983. Since 1984, the award has been presented each year.
