Books in National Book Award for Children's Literature

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of five annual National Book Awards given by the National Book Foundation (NBF) to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. The award recognizes one book written by a US citizen and published in the US from December 1 of the previous year to November 30 in the award year. The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October. The winner is announced on the day of the final ceremony in November. The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists get $1000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel.

1979

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Great Gilly Hopkins	Katherine Paterson	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Little Swineherd	Paula Fox	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Humbug Mountain	Sid Fleischman	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Queen of Hearts	Vera Cleaver	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha	Lloyd Alexander	Finalist	Log In To Like

1978

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The View From the Oak	Judith Kohl	Winner	Log In To Like
	Caleb + Kate	William Steig	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Mischling, Second Degree	Ilse Koehn	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Hew Against the Grain	Betty Sue Cummings	Finalist	Log In To Like
	One at a Time	David McCord	Finalist	Log In To Like

1977

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Master Puppeteer	Katherine Paterson	Winner	Log In To Like
	Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry	Mildred Taylor	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Never to Forget	Milton Meltzer	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Ox Under Pressure	John Ney	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Tunes for a Small Harmonica	Barbara Wersba	Finalist	Log In To Like

1976

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Bert Breen's Barn	Walter D. Edmonds	Winner	Log In To Like
	As I Was Crossing Boston Common	Norma Farber	Finalist	Log In To Like
	To the Green Mountains	Eleanor Cameron	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Ludell	Brenda Wilkinson	Finalist	Log In To Like
	El Bronx Remembered	Nicholasa Mohr	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Star in the Pail	David McCord	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Of Love and Death and Other Journeys	Isabelle Holland	Finalist	Log In To Like

1975

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	M. C. Higgins the Great	Virginia Hamilton	Winner	Log In To Like
	I Tell a Lie Every So Often	Bruce Clements	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Devil's Storybook	Natalie Babbitt	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Doctor in the Zoo	Bruce Buchenholz	Finalist	Log In To Like
	My Brother Sam Is Dead	James Lincoln Collier	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Joi Bangla! The Children of Bangladesh	Jason Laure	Finalist	Log In To Like
	World of our Fathers	Milton Meltzer	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Remember the Days	Milton Meltzer	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Wings	Christopher Myers	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Edge of Next Year	Mary Stolz	Finalist	Log In To Like

1974

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Court of the Stone Children	Eleanor Cameron	Winner	Log In To Like
	Duffy and the Devil	Harve Zemach	Finalist	Log In To Like
	A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich	Alice Childress	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Whys and Wherefores of Littabelle Lee	Vera Cleaver	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Treasure is the Rose	Julia Cunningham	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Summer of My German Soldier	Bette Greene	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Guests in the Promised Land	Kristin Hunter	Finalist	Log In To Like
	A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver	E. L. Konigsburg	Finalist	Log In To Like
	A Figure of Speech	Norma Fox Mazer	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Poor Richard in France	F.N. Monjo	Finalist	Log In To Like

1973

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Farthest Shore	Ursula K. Le Guin	Winner	Log In To Like
	Children of Vietnam	Betty Jean	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Julie of the Wolves	Jean Craighead George	Finalist	Log In To Like
	d'Aulaires' Trolls	Ingri Parin d'Aulaire	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The House of Wings	Betsy Byars	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Witches of Worm	Zilpha Keatley Snyder	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Impossible People	Georgess McHargue	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Dominic	William Steig	Finalist	Log In To Like

1972

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine	Donald Barthelme	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Tombs of Atuan	Ursula K. Le Guin	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Father Fox's Pennyrhymes	Clyde Watson	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Planet of Junior Brown	Virginia Hamilton	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Wild in the World	John Donovan	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Art and Industry of Sandcastles	Jan Adkins	Finalist	Log In To Like

1971

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian	Lloyd Alexander	Winner	Log In To Like
	Blowfish Live in the Sea	Paula Fox	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Trumpet of the Swan	E. B. White	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Frog and Toad Are Friends	Arnold Lobel	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Grover	Vera Cleaver	Finalist	Log In To Like

1970

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	A Day of Pleasure	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Winner	Log In To Like
	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble	William Steig	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Popcorn and Ma Goodness	Edna Mitchell Preston	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Young United States, 1783–1830	Edwin Tunis	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Where the Lilies Bloom	Vera Cleaver	Finalist	Log In To Like

1969

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Journey from Peppermint Street	Meindert DeJong	Winner	Log In To Like
	Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth	Patricia Clapp	Finalist	Log In To Like
	Langston Hughes: A Biography	Milton Meltzer	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The High King	Lloyd Alexander	Finalist	Log In To Like
	The Endless Steppe	Esther Hautzig	Finalist	Log In To Like