Books in Jane Addams Children's Book Award - 1953-1992

The Jane Addams Children's Book Award, from the Jane Addams Peace Association, honors books that promote peace, social justice, world community, and equality. This category holds its single-list years (1953-1992). Winners are novels, history, and nonfiction about civil rights, apartheid, labor, and the peace movement (e.g., Anthony Burns, Waiting for the Rain, Journey of the Sparrows). Best for readers about ages 9-16.

1992

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Journey of the Sparrows	Fran Leeper Buss	Winner	Log In To Like
	Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom	Walter Dean Myers	Honor	Log In To Like

1991

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Big Book for Peace	Ann Durell	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa	Sheila Gordon	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Journey: Japanese-Americans, Racism and Renewal	Sheila Hamanaka	Honor	Log In To Like

1990

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter	Patricia C. McKissack	Winner	Log In To Like
	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	Honor	Log In To Like
	Shades of Gray	Carolyn Reeder	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Wednesday Surprise	Eve Bunting	Honor	Log In To Like

1989

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave	Virginia Hamilton	Winner	Log In To Like
	Looking Out	Victoria Boutis	Winner	Log In To Like
	December Stillness	Mary Downing Hahn	Honor	Log In To Like
	Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust	Milton Meltzer	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Most Beautiful Place in the World	Ann Cameron	Honor	Log In To Like

1988

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Waiting for the Rain: A Novel of South Africa	Sheila Gordon	Winner	Log In To Like
	Nicolas, Where Have You Been?	Leo Lionni	Honor	Log In To Like
	Trouble at the Mines	Doreen Rappaport	Honor	Log In To Like

1987

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Nobody Wants a Nuclear War	Judith Vigna	Winner	Log In To Like
	All in a Day	Mitsumasa Anno	Honor	Log In To Like
	Children of the Maya: A Guatemalan Indian Odyssey	Brent Ashabranner	Honor	Log In To Like

1986

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers	Milton Meltzer	Winner	Log In To Like
	Journey to the Soviet Union	Samantha Smith	Honor	Log In To Like

1985

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Short Life of Sophie Scholl	Hermann Vinke	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Island on Bird Street	Uri Orlev	Honor	Log In To Like
	Music, Music for Everyone	Vera B. Williams	Honor	Log In To Like

1984

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Rain of Fire	Marion Dane Bauer	Winner	Log In To Like

1983

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Hiroshima No Pika	Toshi Maruki	Winner	Log In To Like
	If I Had a Paka: Poems in Eleven Languages	Charlotte Pomerantz	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Bomb	Theodore Taylor	Honor	Log In To Like
	Children as Teachers of Peace	Our Children	Special Recognition	Log In To Like
	All the Colors of the Race	Arnold Adoff	Special Recognition	Log In To Like
	People at the Edge of the World: The Ohlone of Central California	Betty Morrow	West Coast Honor	Log In To Like

1982

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind	Athena V. Lord	Winner	Log In To Like
	Let the Circle Be Unbroken	Mildred D. Taylor	Honor	Log In To Like
	Lupita Mañana	Patricia Beatty	Honor	Log In To Like

1981

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin	Florence Meiman White	Winner	Log In To Like
	Doing Time: A Look at Crime and Prisons	Phyllis Clark	Honor	Log In To Like
	We Are Mesquakie, We Are One	Hadley Irwin	Honor	Log In To Like
	Chase Me, Catch Nobody!	Erik Christian Haugaard	Honor	Log In To Like

1980

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Road from Home	David Kherdian	Winner	Log In To Like
	Natural History	M. B. Goffstein	Special Recognition	Log In To Like
	Woman from Hiroshima	Toshio Mori	West Coast Honor	Log In To Like

1979

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History through Indian Art	Jamake Highwater	Winner	Log In To Like
	Escape to Freedom	Ossie Davis	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Great Gilly Hopkins	Katherine Paterson	Honor	Log In To Like

1978

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Child of the Owl	Laurence Yep	Winner	Log In To Like
	Alan and Naomi	Myron Levoy	Honor	Log In To Like
	Mischling, Second Degree	Ilse Koehn	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Wheel of King Asoka	Ashok Davar	Special Recognition	Log In To Like
	Amifika	Lucille Clifton	Special Recognition	Log In To Like

1977

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust	Milton Meltzer	Winner	Log In To Like
	Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry	Mildred D. Taylor	Honor	Log In To Like

1976

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Paul Robeson	Eloise Greenfield	Winner	Log In To Like
	Dragonwings	Laurence Yep	Honor	Log In To Like
	Song of the Trees	Mildred D. Taylor	Honor	Log In To Like
	Z for Zachariah	Robert C. O'Brien	Honor	Log In To Like

1975

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Princess and the Admiral	Charlotte Pomerantz	Winner	Log In To Like
	Viva la Raza!	Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez	Honor	Log In To Like
	My Brother Sam Is Dead	James Lincoln Collier	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Eye of Conscience	Milton Meltzer	Honor	Log In To Like

1974

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Nilda	Nicholasa Mohr	Winner	Log In To Like
	Men Against War	Barbara Habenstreit	Honor	Log In To Like
	A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich	Alice Childress	Honor	Log In To Like
	A Pocket Full of Seeds	Marilyn Sachs	Honor	Log In To Like

1973

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Riddle of Racism	S. Carl Hirsch	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Upstairs Room	Johanna Reiss	Honor	Log In To Like

1972

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Tamarack Tree	Betty Underwood	Winner	Log In To Like

1971

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice	Cornelia Meigs	Winner	Log In To Like

1970

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Cay	Theodore Taylor	Winner	Log In To Like

1969

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia	Esther Hautzig	Winner	Log In To Like

1968

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Little Fishes	Erik Christian Haugaard	Winner	Log In To Like

1967

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Queenie Peavy	Robert J. Burch	Winner	Log In To Like

1966

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Berries Goodman	Emily Cheney Neville	Winner	Log In To Like

1965

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Meeting with a Stranger	Duane Bradley	Winner	Log In To Like

1964

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Profiles in Courage: Young Readers Memorial Edition	John F. Kennedy	Winner	Log In To Like

1963

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Monkey and the Wild Wild Wind	Ryerson Johnson	Winner	Log In To Like

1962

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Road to Agra	Aimee Sommerfelt	Winner	Log In To Like

1961

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	What Then, Raman?	Shirley L. Arora	Winner	Log In To Like

1960

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Champions of Peace	Edith Patterson Meyer	Winner	Log In To Like

1958

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Perilous Road	William O. Steele	Winner	Log In To Like

1957

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Blue Mystery	Margot Benary-Isbert	Winner	Log In To Like

1956

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Story of the Negro	Arna Bontemps	Winner	Log In To Like

1955

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Rainbow Round the World	Elizabeth Yates	Winner	Log In To Like

1954

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Stick-in-the-Mud	Jean Ketchum	Winner	Log In To Like

1953

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	People Are Important	Eva Knox Evans	Winner	Log In To Like