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National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Index National Book Award for Young People's Literature

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation (NBF) to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. [1]

253 relations: A Gathering of Days, A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, A Long Way from Chicago, A Step From Heaven, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Visit to William Blake's Inn, Adele Griffin, Alan & Naomi, Albert Marrin, Alice and Martin Provensen, Alice Childress, American Born Chinese, An Na, Anastasia Again!, Andrew Aydin, Anita Lobel, Arnold Lobel, Barbara Cooney, Benedict Arnold, Bert Breen's Barn, Betsy Byars, Bette Greene, Beverly Cleary, Blair Lent, Blaise Cendrars, Brian Selznick, Brock Cole, Brown Girl Dreaming, Carolyn Coman, Chime (novel), Chris Lynch, Chris Van Allsburg, Christopher Collier (historian), Claudette Colvin, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Constance Hopkins, Cynthia Kadohata, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Voigt, David McCord, David Small, Deb Caletti, Debby Dahl Edwardson, Deborah Hautzig, Deborah Wiles, Doctor De Soto, Donald Barthelme, Duffy and the Devil, E. B. White, E. L. Konigsburg, ..., E. Lockhart, Each Little Bird That Sings, Edward Fenton, Elana Arnold, Eleanor Cameron, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Eliot Schrefer, Ellen Raskin, Emma Darwin, Erika Sánchez, Esther Hautzig, Ethology, Forgotten Fire, Franny Billingsley, Frog and Toad, Frog and Toad Are Friends, Gary D. Schmidt, Gene Luen Yang, George Washington Carver, Georgess McHargue, Gloria Whelan, Godless (novel), Grace Lin, Grover, Han Nolan, Harlem Renaissance, Herbert Kohl (educator), Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life, Holes (novel), Homecoming (novel), Humbug Mountain, Illustrator, Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Inside Out & Back Again, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isabelle Holland, Jack Gantos, Jacob Have I Loved, Jacqueline Woodson, James Howe, James Lincoln Collier, James Marshall (author), Jan Slepian, Jane Langton, Jason Reynolds, Jean Craighead George, Jean Fritz, Jeanne Birdsall, Jim Murphy (author), Joan Blos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, John Corey Whaley, John Lewis (civil rights leader), Joyce Carol Thomas, Jude Watson, Judith St. George, Judy Blume, Julia Cunningham, Julie Anne Peters, Julie of the Wolves, Jumanji (picture book), Karla Kuskin, Kate DiCamillo, Katherine Paterson, Kathi Appelt, Kathryn Erskine, Kimberly Willis Holt, Kristin Hunter, Langston Hughes, Laurie Halse Anderson, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, List of winners of the National Book Award, Literary award, Lloyd Alexander, Lois Lowry, Louis Sachar, Louise Erdrich, Luna (Peters novel), M. C. Higgins, the Great, Madeleine L'Engle, Marc Simont, March (comics), Marcia Brown, Margot Zemach, Marilyn Nelson, Marked by Fire, Martine Leavitt, Mary Ann Hoberman, Mary Stolz, Matthew Tobin Anderson, Maurice Sendak, Meg Rosoff, Meindert DeJong, Melville House Publishing, Melvin B. Zisfein, Memoir, Michael Cadnum, Mildred D. Taylor, Milton Meltzer, Miss Rumphius, Mockingbird (Erskine novel), Monster (Myers novel), My Brother Sam Is Dead, Nancy Farmer, Nancy Werlin, Nancy Willard, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natalie Babbitt, Nate Powell, National Book Award, National Book Foundation, Neal Shusterman, Nicola Yoon, Noah's Ark (book), Noelle Stevenson, Norma Fox Mazer, Okay for Now, One Crazy Summer (novel), Outside Over There, Paolo Bacigalupi, Patricia McCormick (author), Paula Fox, Pete Hautman, Peter Spier, Phillip Hoose, Polly Horvath, Publishers Weekly, Ramona and Her Mother, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Richard Peck (writer), Rita Williams-Garcia, Robert A. Parker, Robert Frost, Robin Benway, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Rosemary Wells, S. E. Hinton, Sara Zarr, School Library Journal, Shadow (Marcia Brown book), Shelia P. Moses, Sherman Alexie, Ship Breaker, Sid Fleischman, Sold (McCormick novel), Speak (Anderson novel), Stephen Gammell, Steve Sheinkin, Steven Kellogg, Stitches (book), Story of a Girl (novel), Summer of My German Soldier, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Tex (novel), Thanhha Lai, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party, The Canning Season, The Endless Steppe, The Farthest Shore, The Great Gilly Hopkins, The High King, The House of the Scorpion, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Kestrel, The Master Puppeteer, The New York Times, The Penderwicks, The Road from Home, The Rules of Survival, The Thing About Jellyfish, The Tiger Rising, The Trumpet of the Swan, The Underneath (novel), The Westing Game, The Witches of Worm, Tiger Eyes, Tom McNeal, Top Chef (season 2), Tor Seidler, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, True Believer (novel), Tunes for a Small Harmonica, Ursula K. Le Guin, Victor Martinez (author), Virginia Euwer Wolff, Virginia Hamilton, Walter D. Edmonds, Walter Dean Myers, Westmark (novel), What I Saw and How I Lied, What Jamie Saw, When I Was Young in the Mountains, Where the Lilies Bloom, William Alexander (author), William Sleator, William Steig, Woody Guthrie, Words by Heart, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic, 19 Varieties of Gazelle. Expand index (203 more) »

A Gathering of Days

A Gathering of Days; A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 (1979) is a historical novel by Joan Blos that won the 1980 National Book Award for Children's Books (hardcover).

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A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich

A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich is a 1973 young adult novel by Alice Childress.

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A Long Way from Chicago

A Long Way from Chicago is a "novel in stories" (or short story cycle) by Richard Peck.

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A Step From Heaven

A Step From Heaven is the first novel by An Na, published in 2001 by Front Street Press.

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A Swiftly Tilting Planet

A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the third book in the Time Quintet.

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A Visit to William Blake's Inn

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers is a children's picture book written by Nancy Willard and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, published by Harcourt Brace in 1981.

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Adele Griffin

Adele Griffin (born July 29, 1970) is a young adult fiction author, writing numerous novels for young adults, most recently The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone, as well as the Vampire Island and Witch Twins series.

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Alan & Naomi

Alan & Naomi is a 1992 film about the friendship between two children in 1944 Brooklyn.

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Albert Marrin

Albert Marrin (born July 24, 1936) is an American historian, professor of history, and author of more than forty juvenile nonfiction books.

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Alice and Martin Provensen

Alice Rose Provensen (neé Twitchell; August 14, 1918 – April 23, 2018) and Martin Provensen (July 10, 1916 – March 27, 1987) were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together, 19 of which they also wrote and edited.

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Alice Childress

Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994) was an American playwright, actor, and author, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."Mary Helen Washington,, in Bill Mullen and James Edward Smethurst (eds), Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States, Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, p. 186.

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American Born Chinese

American Born Chinese is a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang.

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An Na

An Na (born 1972) is a South Korea-born American children's book author.

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Anastasia Again!

Anastasia Again! (1981) is a young-adult novel by Lois Lowry.

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Andrew Aydin

Andrew Aydin (born August 25, 1983) is an American politician and award-winning comics writer, known as the Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Georgia congressman John Lewis, and co-author, with Lewis, of Lewis' #1 New York Times bestselling autobiographical graphic novel trilogy March—with Representative John Lewis, which debuted in 2013 by Top Shelf Productions.

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Anita Lobel

Anita Lobel (née Kempler; born June 2, 1934) is a Polish-American illustrator of children's books, including On Market Street, written by her husband Arnold Lobel and a Caldecott Honor Book for illustration, A New Coat for Anna, Alison's Zinnia, and This Quiet Lady.

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Arnold Lobel

Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, 1933 – December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup.

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Barbara Cooney

Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published over sixty years.

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Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold (Brandt (1994), p. 4June 14, 1801) was a general during the American Revolutionary War who fought heroically for the American Continental Army—then defected to the enemy in 1780.

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Bert Breen's Barn

Bert Breen's Barn is a children's historical novel set in the early 1900s, written by Walter D. Edmonds and first published by Little Brown in 1975.

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Betsy Byars

Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7, 1928) is an American author of children's books.

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Bette Greene

Bette Greene (born June 28, 1934) is the author of several books for children and young adults, including Summer of My German Soldier, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, and the Newbery Honor book Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe.

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Beverly Cleary

Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; born April 12, 1916) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction.

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Blair Lent

Blair Lent (January 22, 1930 – January 27, 2009), who sometimes wrote as Ernest Small, was an American illustrator and writer of children's books, perhaps best known for those with Chinese themes such as Tikki Tikki Tembo (1968).

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Blaise Cendrars

Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916.

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Brian Selznick

Brian Selznick (born July 14, 1966) is an American illustrator and writer best known for illustrating children's books.

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Brock Cole

Brock Cole (born May 29, 1938).

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming is a 2014 adolescent novel told in verse by author Jacqueline Woodson.

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Carolyn Coman

Carolyn Coman (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer best known for children's books.

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Chime (novel)

Chime is a 2011 young adult fantasy novel by Franny Billingsley.

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Chris Lynch

Chris Lynch (born July 2, 1962) is an American writer of books for young people.

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Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Christopher Collier (historian)

Christopher Collier (born January 29, 1930) is an American historian and fiction writer.

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Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice is a 2009 young adult nonfiction book by Phillip Hoose, recounting the experiences of Claudette Colvin in Montgomery, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Constance Hopkins

Constance Hopkins (baptized May 11, 1606 – October 1677), also sometimes listed as Constanta.

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Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005.

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Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant (born 6 June 1954) is an American author and librarian.

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Cynthia Voigt

Cynthia Voigt (born February 25, 1942) is an American writer of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse.

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David McCord

David Thompson Watson McCord (December 15, 1897 New York CityApril 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.

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David Small

David Small (born February 12, 1945) is an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books.

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Deb Caletti

Deb Caletti (born June 16, 1963) is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction.

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Debby Dahl Edwardson

Deborah "Debby" Dahl Edwardson (born 1954) is an American author of young adult fiction.

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Deborah Hautzig

Deborah Hautzig (born 1956, New York) is the author of several children's books, including the Little Witch series.

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Deborah Wiles

Deborah Wiles (born May 5, 1953, Mobile, Alabama, United States) is an award-winning children's book author.

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Doctor De Soto

Doctor De Soto is a picture book for children written and illustrated by William Steig and first published in 1982.

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Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction.

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Duffy and the Devil

Duffy and the Devil (1973) is a book by Margot Zemach and her husband Harvey Fichstrom (as Harve Zemach).

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E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer and a world federalist.

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E. L. Konigsburg

Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 – April 19, 2013) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction.

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E. Lockhart

Emily Jenkins (born 1967), who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young-adult novels, and adult fiction.

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Each Little Bird That Sings

Each Little Bird That Sings is a 2005 novel aimed for people of all ages, by Deborah Wiles, the author of Love, Ruby Lavender.

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Edward Fenton

Edward Fenton (died 1603) was an English navigator, son of Henry Fenton and brother of Sir Geoffrey Fenton.

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Elana Arnold

Elana K. Arnold is a children's and young adult author.

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Eleanor Cameron

Eleanor Frances (Butler) Cameron (March 23, 1912 – October 11, 1996) was a children's author and critic.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine (Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore,; 1124 – 1 April 1204) was queen consort of France (1137–1152) and England (1154–1189) and duchess of Aquitaine in her own right (1137–1204).

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Eliot Schrefer

Eliot Schrefer (born November 25, 1978), is an American author of both Adult and Young Adult fiction, and a two-time finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.

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Ellen Raskin

Ellen Raskin (March 13, 1928 – August 8, 1984) was an American children's writer and illustrator.

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Emma Darwin

Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin.

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Erika Sánchez

Erika L. Sánchez is a poet and writer.

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Esther Hautzig

Esther R. Hautzig (אסתר האוציג, born October 18, 1930 – died November 1, 2009) was an American writer, best known for her award-winning book The Endless Steppe (1968).

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Ethology

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.

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Forgotten Fire

Forgotten Fire (2002) is a young adult novel by Adam Bagdasarian.

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Franny Billingsley

Franny Billingsley (born July 3, 1954) is the author of three award-winning children's fantasy novels, Well Wished, The Folk Keeper, and Chime, and the picture book Big Bad Bunny.

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Frog and Toad

Frog and Toad are the main characters in a series of easy-reader children's books, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel (who also wrote Mouse Soup).

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Frog and Toad Are Friends

Frog and Toad Are Friends is an American children's picture book, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper & Row in 1970.

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Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt (born 1957) is an American author of children's and young adults' fiction books.

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Gene Luen Yang

Gene Luen Yang (Chinese Traditional: 楊謹倫, Simplified: 杨谨伦, Pinyin: Yáng Jǐnlún; born August 9, 1973) is an Asian-American cartoonist.

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George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver (1860sThe Notable Names Database states around 1860 citing a census report from 1870: "1864 is frequently cited as his birth year, but in the 1870 census form filed by Moses and Susan Carver he is listed as being ten years old.", NNDB. – January 5, 1943), was an American botanist and inventor.

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Georgess McHargue

Georgess McHargue (June 7, 1941 – July 18, 2011) was an American writer and poet.

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Gloria Whelan

Gloria Whelan (born November 23, 1923) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist known primarily for children's and young adult fiction.

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Godless (novel)

Godless, a young adult novel by Pete Hautman, was published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster.

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Grace Lin

Grace Lin (born May 17, 1974) is an American children's writer and illustrator.

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Grover

Grover, also known as Super Grover and Grover Monster, is a muppet character on the popular television show Sesame Street.

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Han Nolan

Han Nolan (born August 25, 1956) is an American writer of young adult fiction.

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Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.

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Herbert Kohl (educator)

Herbert R. Kohl (born August 22, 1937) is an educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the author of more than thirty books on education.

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Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life is a 2010 Canadian live-action/animated short film about the fictional adventures of Maurice Sendak's pet dog Jennie, based on his 1967 children's book of the same name.

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Holes (novel)

Holes is a 1998 young adult mystery comedy novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Homecoming (novel)

Homecoming is a young adult novel by American children's author Cynthia Voigt.

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Humbug Mountain

Humbug Mountain lies on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Illustrator

An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea.

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Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Ingri d'Aulaire (December 27, 1904 – October 24, 1980) and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (September 30, 1898 – May 1, 1986) were U.S. immigrant writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as a team.

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Inside Out & Back Again

Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel by Thanhha Lai.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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Isabelle Holland

Isabelle Christian Holland (June 16, 1920 – February 9, 2002) was an American author of fiction for children and adults.

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Jack Gantos

Jack Gantos (born July 2, 1951) is an American author of children's books.

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Jacob Have I Loved

Jacob Have I Loved is a children's novel by Katherine Paterson.

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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents.

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James Howe

James Howe (born August 2, 1946) is an American children's writer with more than 79 juvenile and young adult fiction books to his credit.

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James Lincoln Collier

James Lincoln Collier (born June 29, 1928) is an American journalist, professional musician, and author of books, primarily non-fiction for adult readers and fiction for children.

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James Marshall (author)

James Edward Marshall (October 10, 1942 – October 13, 1992) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books, probably best known for the George and Martha series of picture books (1972–1988).

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Jan Slepian

Janice Slepian (née Berek; January 2, 1921 – November 2, 2016), was an author of books for children and young adults and a poet.

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Jane Langton

Jane Gillson Langton (born December 30, 1922) is an American writer and author of children's literature and mystery novels.

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Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds (born December 6, 1983) is an American author.

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Jean Craighead George

Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain.

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Jean Fritz

Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14, 2017) was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history.

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Jeanne Birdsall

Jeanne Birdsall (born 1951) is an American writer of children's books.

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Jim Murphy (author)

Jim Murphy (born September 25, 1947) is an American author of more than 35 nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, including more than 30 about American history.

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Joan Blos

Joan Winsor Blos (December 9, 1928 – October 12, 2017) was an American writer, teacher and advocate for children's literacy.

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key is a children's novel by Jack Gantos, published in 1998.

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John Corey Whaley

John Corey Whaley (born January 19, 1984) is an American author of contemporary realistic novels for young adults.

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John Lewis (civil rights leader)

John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader.

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Joyce Carol Thomas

Joyce Carol Thomas (May 25, 1938 – August 13, 2016) was an African-American poet, playwright, motivational speaker, and author of more than 30 children's books.

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Jude Watson

Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers.

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Judith St. George

Judith Saint George (February 26, 1931 – June 10, 2015) was an American author, most famous for writing So You Want to Be President? Author and illustrator David Small was awarded the 2001 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in the book.

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Judy Blume

Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American writer known for children's and young adult (YA) fiction.

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Julia Cunningham

Julia Woolfolk Cunningham (October 4, 1916 – February 27, 2008) was an American author of children's literature.

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Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters (born January 16, 1952) is an American author of young adult fiction.

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Julie of the Wolves

Julie of the Wolves is a children's novel by Jean Craighead George, published by Harper in 1972 with illustrations by John Schoenherr.

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Jumanji (picture book)

Jumanji is a 1981 fantasy children's picture book, written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg.

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Karla Kuskin

Karla Kuskin (née Seidman) (July 17, 1932 – August 20, 2009) was a prolific author, poet, illustrator, and reviewer of children's literature.

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Kate DiCamillo

Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo (born March 25, 1964) Includes "Autobiographical Statement" by DiCamillo".

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Katherine Paterson

Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels.

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Kathi Appelt

Kathi Appelt (born July 6, 1954) is an American author of more than forty books for children and young adults.

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Kathryn Erskine

Kathryn Erskine is a Netherlands-born American writer of children's literature.

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Kimberly Willis Holt

Kimberly Willis Holt (born September 9, 1960) is an American writer of children's literature.

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Kristin Hunter

Kristin Elaine Hunter (September 12, 1931 – November 14, 2008) was an African-American writer from Pennsylvania.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels.

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Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Let The Circle Be Unbroken is the 1981 sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976), written by Mildred D. Taylor.

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List of winners of the National Book Award

These authors and books have won the annual National Book Awards, awarded to American authors by the National Book Foundation based in the United States.

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Literary award

A literary award is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.

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Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults.

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Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer credited with forty-five children's books.

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Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar (born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author.

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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.

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Luna (Peters novel)

Luna is a young adult novel, by Julie Anne Peters, and was first published in 2004.

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Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle Camp (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer who wrote young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.

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Marc Simont

Marc Simont (November 23, 1915 – July 13, 2013) was a Paris-born American artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books.

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March (comics)

The March trilogy is a black and white graphic novel trilogy about the Civil Rights Movement, told through the perspective of civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis.

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Marcia Brown

Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books.

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Margot Zemach

Margot Zemach (November 30, 1931 – May 21, 1989) was an American illustrator of more than forty children's books, some of which she also wrote.

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Marilyn Nelson

Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, and children's book author.

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Marked by Fire

Marked by Fire (first published January 1, 1982) is a novel by Joyce Carol Thomas.

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Martine Leavitt

Martine Leavitt is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a writing teacher.

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Mary Ann Hoberman

Mary Ann Hoberman is an American author of over 30 children's books.

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Mary Stolz

Mary Stolz (born Mary Slattery, March 24, 1920 – December 15, 2006) was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults.

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Matthew Tobin Anderson

Matthew Tobin Anderson, known as M.T. Anderson (born November 4, 1968) is an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young adult novels.

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Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff (born 16 October 1956) is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom.

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Meindert DeJong

Meindert De Jong, sometimes spelled de Jong, DeJong or Dejong (4 March 1906 – 16 July 1991) was a Dutch-born American writer of children's books.

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Melville House Publishing

Melville House Publishing is an independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

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Melvin B. Zisfein

Melvin B. Zisfein (1926-1995) was an aircraft designer and a Deputy Director of the U.S. National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

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Memoir

A memoir (US: /ˈmemwɑːr/; from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in the subject's life.

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Michael Cadnum

Michael Cadnum (born 1949) is an American poet and novelist.

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Mildred D. Taylor

Mildred DeLois Taylor (born September 13, 1943) is an African-American writer known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South.

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Milton Meltzer

Milton Meltzer (May 8, 1915 – September 19, 2009) was an American historian and author best known for his history nonfiction books on Jewish, African-American, and American history.

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Miss Rumphius

Miss Rumphius is a picture book for children written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and first published by Viking Books in 1982.

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Mockingbird (Erskine novel)

Mockingbird is a young adult novel by American author Kathryn Erskine about a girl with Asperger syndrome coping with the loss of her brother.

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Monster (Myers novel)

Monster is a young adult drama novel by American author Walter Dean Myers and was published by Harpercollins in 1999.

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My Brother Sam Is Dead

My Brother Sam Is Dead (1974) is a young adult historical fiction novel by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier.

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Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer is an American author of children's and young adult books and science fiction.

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Nancy Werlin

Nancy Werlin (born October 29, 1961) is an American writer of young-adult novels.

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Nancy Willard

Nancy Willard (June 26, 1936 – February 19, 2017) was an American writer: novelist, poet, author and occasional illustrator of children's books.

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Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye (نعومي شهاب ناي), (born March 12, 1952) is a poet, songwriter, and novelist.

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Natalie Babbitt

Natalie Zane Babbitt (née Moore; July 28, 1932 – October 31, 2016) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Nate Powell

Nate Powell (born 1978 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American graphic novelist and musician.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young-adult fiction.

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Nicola Yoon

Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American author.

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Noah's Ark (book)

Noah's Ark is a picture book written and illustrated by Peter Spier, first published by Doubleday in 1977.

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Noelle Stevenson

Noelle Stevenson (born December 31, 1991) is an American cartoonist.

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Norma Fox Mazer

Norma Fox Mazer (May 15, 1931 – October 17, 2009) was an American author and teacher, best known for her books for children and young adults.

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Okay for Now

Okay for Now is a children's novel by Gary D. Schmidt, published in 2011.

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One Crazy Summer (novel)

One Crazy Summer is a historical fiction novel by American author Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad in 2010.

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Outside Over There

Outside Over There is a picture book for children written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

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Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Patricia McCormick (author)

Patricia McCormick (born May 23, 1956) is an American journalist and writer of realistic fiction for young adults.

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Paula Fox

Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs.

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Pete Hautman

Peter Murray Hautman (born September 29, 1952) is an American author of novels for young adults.

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Peter Spier

Peter Spier (June 6, 1927 – April 27, 2017) was a Dutch-born American illustrator and writer who created more than thirty children's books.

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Phillip Hoose

Phillip M. Hoose (born May 31, 1947) is an American writer of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles.

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Polly Horvath

Polly Horvath (born 30 January 1957) is an American-Canadian author of novels for children and young adults.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Ramona and Her Mother

Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary is the fifth book of the popular Ramona series.

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Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) by Beverly Cleary is the sixth book of the popular Ramona series.

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Richard Peck (writer)

Richard Wayne Peck (April 5, 1934 – May 23, 2018) was an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature.

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Rita Williams-Garcia

Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) is an American writer of young-adult novels.

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Robert A. Parker

Robert Allan Ridley Parker (born December 14, 1936) is an American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut.

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.

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Robin Benway

Robin Benway is an author from Orange County, USA.

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1976 novel by Mildred D. Taylor, sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees.

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Rosemary Wells

Rosemary Wells (born January 29, 1943) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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S. E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school.

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Sara Zarr

Sara Zarr (born October 3, 1970) is an American writer.

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School Library Journal

The School Library Journal is a monthly magazine with articles and reviews for school librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people.

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Shadow (Marcia Brown book)

Shadow is a children's picture book created by Marcia Brown and published by Scribner in 1982.

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Shelia P. Moses

Shelia P. Moses, is an African-American writer whose subjects include comedian Dick Gregory and The Legend of Buddy Bush.

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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker.

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Ship Breaker

Ship Breaker is a 2010 young adult novel by Paolo Bacigalupi set in a post-apocalyptic future.

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Sid Fleischman

Albert Sidney Fleischman (March 16, 1920 – March 17, 2010), or Sid Fleischman, was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about stage magic.

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Sold (McCormick novel)

Sold is a novel by Patricia McCormick, published in 2006.

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Speak (Anderson novel)

Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino.

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Stephen Gammell

Stephen Gammell (born February 10, 1943) is an American illustrator of children's books.

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Steve Sheinkin

Steve Sheinkin is an American author of suspenseful history books for young adults.

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Steven Kellogg

Steven Hartwell Kellogg (born October 26, 1941 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American author and illustrator who has created more than 90 children's books.

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Stitches (book)

Stitches: A Memoir is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by David Small.

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Story of a Girl (novel)

Story of a Girl is a young-adult novel by Sara Zarr.

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Summer of My German Soldier

Summer of My German Soldier is a book by Bette Greene first published in 1973.

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Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush is a 1982 children's novel by Virginia Hamilton and is about a girl, Tree, who lives with her mother and older brother, and her involvement with a ghost.

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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is an award-winning children's picture book written and illustrated by William Steig, and published in 1969.

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Tex (novel)

Tex is a novel by S. E. Hinton, published in 1979.

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Thanhha Lai

Thanhha Lai (born 1965) is a Vietnam-born American writer of the children's literature.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a novel by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney.

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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party is an American historical novel for young adults written by M.T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press in 2006.

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The Canning Season

The Canning Season is a young adult novel by American-Canadian author Polly Horvath.

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The Endless Steppe

The Endless Steppe (1968) is a book by Esther Hautzig, describing her and her family's exile to Siberia during World War II.

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The Farthest Shore

The Farthest Shore is a young adult fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published by Atheneum in 1972.

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The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Great Gilly Hopkins is a realistic children's novel by Katherine Paterson.

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The High King

The High King (1968) is a high fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander, the fifth and last of The Chronicles of Prydain.

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The House of the Scorpion

The House of the Scorpion (2002) is a science fiction young adult novel by Nancy Farmer.

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is an American historical fiction novel written and illustrated by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic.

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The Kestrel

The Kestrel (1982) is a fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander, the second of three books often called the Westmark trilogy.

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The Master Puppeteer

The Master Puppeteer (1975) is a historical novel for children by Katherine Paterson.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Penderwicks

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy is a children's novel by Jeanne Birdsall, published by Knopf in 2005.

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The Road from Home

The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope, earlier titled The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, is a non-fiction book written by David Kherdian, originally published in 1979.

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The Rules of Survival

The Rules of Survival is a 2006 novel written by Nancy Werlin.

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The Thing About Jellyfish

The Thing About Jellyfish is a 2015 children's novel written by Ali Benjamin, her fiction debut.

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The Tiger Rising

The Tiger Rising is a 2001 children's book written by Newbery Medal winning author Kate DiCamillo.

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The Trumpet of the Swan

The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970.

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The Underneath (novel)

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt is the story of an abandoned cat and who goes to live with a maltreated hound dog underneath a crooked old house in a bayou on the border between Louisiana and Texas.

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The Westing Game

The Westing Game is a mystery novel written by Ellen Raskin and published by Dutton in 1978.

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The Witches of Worm

The Witches of Worm is a 1972 young adult novel by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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Tiger Eyes

Tiger Eyes is a young adult novel written by Judy Blume in 1981 about a 15-year-old girl attempting to cope with the unexpected death of her father.

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Tom McNeal

Tom McNeal (born Santa Ana, California November 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Top Chef (season 2)

Top Chef: Los Angeles is the second season of the American reality television series Top Chef.

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Tor Seidler

Tor Seidler (born 1952 in Littleton, New Hampshire) is an American author of children's literature.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history.

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True Believer (novel)

True Believer is a verse novel for young adults, written by Virginia Euwer Wolff and published by Atheneum Books in 2001.

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Tunes for a Small Harmonica

Tunes for a Small Harmonica is a novel by Barbara Wersba about an adolescent tomboy named J.F. McAllister.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.

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Victor Martinez (author)

Victor L. Martinez (February 21, 1954 – February 18, 2011) was a Mexican American poet and author.

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Virginia Euwer Wolff

Virginia Euwer Wolff (born August 25, 1937) is an American author of children's literature.

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Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an African-American children's books author.

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Walter D. Edmonds

Walter "Walt" Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 – January 24, 1998) was an American writer best known for historical novels.

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Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature.

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Westmark (novel)

Westmark (1981) is a fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander, named for a fictional kingdom that is its setting.

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What I Saw and How I Lied

What I Saw and How I Lied is a novel for young adults written by Judy Blundell and published by Scholastic in 2008.

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What Jamie Saw

What Jamie Saw is a 1995 novel by Carolyn Coman.

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When I Was Young in the Mountains

When I Was Young in the Mountains is a 1982 children's book.

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Where the Lilies Bloom

Where the Lilies Bloom is a 1974 film adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by Bill and Vera Cleaver.

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William Alexander (author)

William Joseph Alexander (born October 9, 1976) is an American writer and academic.

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William Sleator

William Warner Sleator III (February 13, 1945 – August 3, 2011), known as William Sleator, was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers.

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William Steig

William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.

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Words by Heart

"Words by Heart" is a song written by Reed Nielsen and Monty Powell, and recorded by American country music singer, Billy Ray Cyrus.

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Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, 1927 – October 8, 2014) was an American author of books for children and young adults.

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1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic

During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the official register of deaths between August 1 and November 9.

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19 Varieties of Gazelle

19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East is a poetry book, by Naomi Shihab Nye.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People's_Literature

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