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Literary Award Winners at HCTC Libraries

Award Winners (2010-Present)

Freewater

2023

The Last Cuentista

2022

When You Trap a Tiger

2021

New Kid

2020

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

2019

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

2017

Last Stop on Market Street

2016

The Crossover

2015

Flora and Ulysses

2014

The One and Only Ivan

2013

Dead End in Norvelt

2012

Moon over Manifest

2011

When You Reach Me

2010

Award Winners (2000-2009)

The Graveyard Book

2009

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

2008

The Higher Power of Lucky

2007

Criss Cross

2006

Kira-Kira

2005

The Tale of Despereaux

2004

Crispin: the Cross of Lead

2003

A Single Shard

2002

A Year down Yonder

2001

Bud, Not Buddy

2000

Award Winners (1990-1999)

Holes

1999

Out of the Dust

1998

The View from Saturday

1997

The Midwife's Apprentice

1996

Walk Two Moons

1995

The Giver

1994

Missing May

1993

Shiloh

1992

Maniac Magee

1991

Number the Stars

1990

Award Winners (Prior to 1990)

1989
- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988
- Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1987
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
1986
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1985
- The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
1984
- Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
1983
- Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
1982
- A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard
1981
- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980
- A Gathering of Days by Joan Blos
1979
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
1978
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
1977
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1976
- The Grey King by Susan Cooper
1975
- M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1974
- The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
1973
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1972
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien
1971
- Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
1970
- Sounder by William Armstrong
1969
- The High King by Lloyd Alexander
1968
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
1967
- Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1965
- Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964
- It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
1963
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1962
- The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1960
- Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
1959
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1958
- Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1956
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Latham
(1955)
- The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong
1954
- ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953
- Secret of the Andes by Ann Clark
1952
- Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951
- Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1947
- Miss Hickory by Carolyn Bailey
1946
- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945
- Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943
- Adam of the Road by Janet Gray
1941
- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1936
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink
1931
- The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1922
- The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon