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William Allen White Children's Book Award

Index William Allen White Children's Book Award

The William Allen White Children's Book Award is a set of two annual awards for books selected by vote of Kansas schoolchildren from lists prepared by committee. [1]

103 relations: A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray, A Light in the Attic, Amos Fortune, Free Man, Andrew Clements, Ann M. Martin, Barbara Brooks Wallace, Barbara O'Connor (author), Barbara Park, Because of Winn-Dixie, Betsy Byars, Beverly Cleary, Brighty of the Grand Canyon, Bud, Not Buddy, Buddy (Herlong novel), C. S. Adler, Chris Grabenstein, Christopher Paul Curtis, Clementine (series), Cynthia Kadohata, E. B. White, E. L. Konigsburg, Elizabeth Yates (author), Elliott Arnold, Emporia Gazette, Emporia State University, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Fred Gipson, Frindle, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Gary Paulsen, George Selden (author), Gordon Korman, Hatchet (novel), Helen Frost, Henry Reed (character), Holes (novel), Island of the Blue Dolphins, Jack Mandelbaum, Jean Van Leeuwen, Jeanne DuPrau, Jennifer Roy, Jerry Spinelli, June Rae Wood, Kansas, Kate DiCamillo, Katherine Paterson, Kävik the Wolf Dog, Keith Robertson (writer), Lois Lowry, Loser (novel), ..., Louis Sachar, Maniac Magee, Marguerite Henry, Mary Downing Hahn, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, National Book Festival, Old Yeller, On My Honor, Patricia Reilly Giff, Patrick Jennings (writer), Peg Kehret, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Primary education in the United States, Quang Nhuong Huynh, Rascal (book), Robert C. O'Brien (author), Robert Kimmel Smith, Sara Pennypacker, Sarah Weeks, Scott O'Dell, Secondary education in the United States, Sharon Creech, Sheila Burnford, Shel Silverstein, Shiloh (Naylor novel), So B. It, Socks (novel), Stephanie S. Tolan, Sterling North, Summer of the Monkeys, Surviving the Applewhites, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, The City of Ember, The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story, The Giver, The Headless Cupid, The Incredible Journey, The Land I Lost, The Landry News, The Man Who Loved Clowns, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, The Pinballs, The Report Card, The Trumpet of the Swan, Walt Morey, Wendy Mass, William Allen White, William O. Steele, William Steig, Wilson Rawls, Yellow Star (novel), Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 11 Birthdays. Expand index (53 more) »

A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray

A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray is a children's novel written in 2005 by Ann M. Martin and is published by Scholastic Books.

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A Light in the Attic

A Light in the Attic is a collection of poems by the American poet, writer, and children's author Shel Silverstein.

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Amos Fortune, Free Man

Amos Fortune, Free Man is a biographical novel by Elizabeth Yates that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1951.

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Andrew Clements

Andrew Clements (born May 29, 1949) is an American writer of many children's books.

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Ann M. Martin

Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955) is an American children's author most well known for writing The Baby-Sitters Club series.

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Barbara Brooks Wallace

Barbara Brooks Wallace (born December 3, 1922, Suzhou, China) is an American children's writer.

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Barbara O'Connor (author)

Barbara O'Connor (born November 9, 1958) is an American author of children's books.

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Barbara Park

Barbara Lynne Park (April 21, 1947 – November 15, 2013) was an American author of children's books.

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Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie is a children's novel written by Kate DiCamillo, which was published in 2000, and was the winner of a Newbery Honor distinction the following year.

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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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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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Brighty of the Grand Canyon

Brighty of the Grand Canyon is a 1953 children's novel by Marguerite Henry and a 1967 film of the same name based on the novel.

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Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy is a children's novel written by Christopher Paul Curtis, published in 1999.

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Buddy (Herlong novel)

Buddy is a children's novel by American author M. H. Herlong about a family and a dog affected by Hurricane Katrina.

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C. S. Adler

C.S. (Carole Schwerdtfeger) Adler (born February 23, 1932) is an American children's book author.

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Chris Grabenstein

Christopher "Chris" Grabenstein is an American author.

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Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953)Judy Levin, Allison Stark Draper, Christopher Paul Curtis (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2005),, p. 84.

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Clementine (series)

Clementine is a series of children's chapter books written by Sara Pennypacker and illustrated by Marla Frazee.

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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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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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Elizabeth Yates (author)

Elizabeth Yates McGreal (December 6, 1905 – July 29, 2001) was an American writer.

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Elliott Arnold

Elliott Arnold (September 13, 1912 – May 13, 1980) was an American newspaper feature writer, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Emporia Gazette

The Emporia Gazette is a daily newspaper in Emporia, Kansas.

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Emporia State University

Emporia State University, often referred to as Emporia State or ESU, is a public university in Emporia, Kansas.

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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Escape from Mr.

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Fred Gipson

Frederick Benjamin "Fred" Gipson (February 7, 1908 – August 14, 1973) was an American author.

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Frindle

Frindle is an American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin in 1996.

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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.

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Gary Paulsen

Gary James Paulsen (born May 17, 1939) is an American writer of young adult literature, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness.

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George Selden (author)

George Selden Thompson (May 14, 1929 – December 5, 1989) was an American author.

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Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American author.

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Hatchet (novel)

Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen.

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Helen Frost

Helen Marie Frost (born March 4, 1949) is an American writer and poet.

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Henry Reed (character)

Henry Reed is the main character and narrator of a series of five children's novels by Keith Robertson.

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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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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Island of the Blue Dolphins is a 1960 children's novel written by Scott O'Dell and tells the story of a 12-year-old girl stranded alone for years on an island off the California coast.

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Jack Mandelbaum

Jack Mandelbaum is a Holocaust survivor born in 1927 in the Free City of Danzig, renamed Gdańsk in 1945.

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Jean Van Leeuwen

Jean Van Leeuwen (born December 26, 1937) is the author of over forty children's books, including the Oliver Pig series, and Bound for Oregon.

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Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The City of Ember, a series of novels for young people.

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Jennifer Roy

Jennifer Roy (born May 26) is an American children's writer.

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Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood.

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June Rae Wood

June Rae Wood is an American author.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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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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Kävik the Wolf Dog

Kävik the Wolf Dog is a novel written in 1968 by Walt Morey.

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Keith Robertson (writer)

Keith Carlton Robertson (1914-1991) was an American writer of children's books and murder mysteries.

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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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Loser (novel)

Loser is a coming of age young adult novel first published in 2002 by American author Jerry Spinelli.

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Louis Sachar

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

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Maniac Magee

Maniac Magee is a novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990.

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Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry née Breithaupt (April 13, 1902 – November 26, 1997) was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals.

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Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn (born December 9, 1937) is an American writer of young adult novels and former school librarian.

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Mrs.

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National Book Festival

The National Book Festival is a public book event in the United States organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress.

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Old Yeller

Old Yeller is a 1956 children's novel written by Fred Gipson and illustrated by Carl Burger.

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On My Honor

On My Honor is a short Newbery Honor-winning novel by Marion Dane Bauer, first published in 1986.

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Patricia Reilly Giff

Patricia Reilly Giff (born April 26, 1935, Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American author and teacher.

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Patrick Jennings (writer)

Patrick Jennings (born February 25, 1962) is an American writer of children's books including picture books, middle-grade fiction, young adult fiction, and short stories.

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Peg Kehret

Peg Kehret (Margaret Ann Schulze, born November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 11 and 15.

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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction.

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Primary education in the United States

Primary education in the United States (also elementary education) refers to the first seven to nine years of formal education in most jurisdictions, often in elementary schools, including middle schools.

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Quang Nhuong Huynh

Quang Nhuong Huynh (August 22, 1946—2001) was a Vietnamese-born American author.

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Rascal (book)

Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, often referred to as Rascal, is a 1963 children's book by Sterling North about his childhood in Wisconsin.

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Robert C. O'Brien (author)

Robert Leslie Carroll Conly (January 11, 1918 – March 5, 1973), better known by pen name Robert C. O'Brien, was an American novelist and a journalist for National Geographic Magazine.

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Robert Kimmel Smith

Robert Kimmel Smith (born July 31, 1930, Brooklyn, New York) is a novelist and award-winning American children's author.

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Sara Pennypacker

Sara Pennypacker is an American author of children's literature.

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Sarah Weeks

Sarah Weeks (born March 18, 1955) is an American writer of children's books, perhaps best known for the novel So B. It which has won several juvenile literature awards.

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Scott O'Dell

Scott O'Dell (May 23, 1898 – October 15, 1989) was an American author of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books.

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Secondary education in the United States

In most jurisdictions, secondary education in the United States refers to the last four years of statutory formal education (grade nine through grade twelve) either at high school or split between a final year of 'junior high school' and three in high school.

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Sharon Creech

Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American writer of children's novels.

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Sheila Burnford

Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford née Every (11 May 1918 – 20 April 1984) was a British Canadian writer.

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Shel Silverstein

Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer known for his cartoons, songs, and children's books.

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Shiloh (Naylor novel)

Shiloh is a Newbery Medal-winning children's novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published in 1991.

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So B. It

So B. It is a children's novel by Sarah Weeks, released in 2004.

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Socks (novel)

Socks is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary, originally illustrated by Beatrice Darwin, and published in 1973.

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Stephanie S. Tolan

Stephanie S. Tolan (born 1942 in Ohio) is an American author of children's books.

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Sterling North

Thomas Sterling North (November 4, 1906 – December 21, 1974), who used Sterling North professionally, was an American writer.

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Summer of the Monkeys

Summer of the Monkeys is a 1976 children's novel written by Wilson Rawls.

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Surviving the Applewhites

Surviving the Applewhites is a 2002 children's novel by Stephanie S. Tolan.

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Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Susan Campbell Bartoletti (born 1958) is an American writer of children's literature whose work includes Kids on Strike! and Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow.

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The City of Ember

The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Jeanne DuPrau that was published in 2003.

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The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story

The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story is a children's novel by Mary Downing Hahn.

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The Giver

The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry.

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The Headless Cupid

The Headless Cupid is a children's novel by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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The Incredible Journey

The Incredible Journey (1961), by Scottish author Sheila Burnford, is a children's book first published by Hodder, which tells the story of three pets as they travel through the Canadian wilderness searching for their beloved masters.

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The Land I Lost

The Land I Lost is an autobiographical book that centers on the life of the author, Quang Nhuong Huynh.

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The Landry News

The Landry News is a children's book by Andrew Clements first published in the United States in 1999 by Aladdin.

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The Man Who Loved Clowns

The Man Who Loved Clowns is a 1992 novel by June Rae Wood about coping with mental disability in the family.

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The Mouse and the Motorcycle

The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965.

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The Pinballs

The Pinballs is a 1976 young adult novel by American author Betsy Byars.

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The Report Card

The Report Card is a children's novel by Andrew Clements, first published in 2004.

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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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Walt Morey

Walter "Walt" Morey (February 3, 1907 in Hoquiam, Washington, USA – January 12, 1992 in Wilsonville, Oregon), was an author of numerous works of children's fiction, set in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Alaska, the places where Morey lived for all of his life.

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Wendy Mass

Wendy Mass (born April 22, 1967), is an author of young adult novels and children's books.

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William Allen White

William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement.

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William O. Steele

William Owen Steele (December 22, 1917 – June 25, 1979) was an American author from Tennessee.

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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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Wilson Rawls

Woodrow Wilson Rawls, (September 24, 1913 - December 16, 1984) was an American writer best known for his books Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys.

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Yellow Star (novel)

Yellow Star is a 2006 biographical children's novel by Jennifer Roy.

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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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11 Birthdays

11 Birthdays is a children's time loop novel written by Wendy Mass and first published in 2009 by Scholastic Press.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_White_Children's_Book_Award

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