Books in Phoenix Award
Awarded annually, this award recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the book's rise from relative obscurity.
2026
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Naming Maya | Uma Krishnaswami | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Behind You | Jacqueline Woodson | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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Airborn | Kenneth Oppel | Honor | Log In To Like |
2025
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Autobiography of My Dead Brother | Walter Dean Myers | Winner | Log In To Like |
| All Rivers Flow to the Sea | Alison McGhee | Honor | Log In To Like |
2024
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America | Deborah Hopkinson | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Everlost | Neal Shusterman | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Keturah and Lord Death | Martine Leavitt | Honor | Log In To Like |
2023
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Walking the Choctaw Road | Tim Tingle | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers | Richard Maurer | Honor | Log In To Like |
2022
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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When the Emperor Was Divine | Julie Otsuka | Winner | Log In To Like |
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When My Name Was Keoko | Linda Sue Park | Honor | Log In To Like |
2021
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Finding Grace | Alyssa Brugman | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Whale Talk | Chris Crutcher | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Any Small Goodness | Tony Johnston | Honor | Log In To Like |
2020
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Many Stones | Carolyn Coman | Winner | Log In To Like |
| 145th Street: Short Stories | Walter Dean Myers | Honor | Log In To Like |
2019
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The Birchbark House | Louise Erdrich | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Imani All Mine | Connie Porter | Honor | Log In To Like |
2018
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange | Elizabeth Partridge | Winner | Log In To Like |
2017
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Wish Me Luck | James Heneghan | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Seedfolks | Paul Fleischman | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Habibi | Naomi Shihab Nye | Honor | Log In To Like |
2016
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Frindle | Andrew Clements | Winner | Log In To Like |
2015
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| One Bird | Kyoko Mori | Winner | Log In To Like |
2014
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Jesse | Gary Soto | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Under the Blood Red Sun | Graham Salisbury | Honor | Log In To Like |
2013
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Frozen Waterfall | Gaye Hiçyilmaz | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary | Walter Dean Myers | Honor | Log In To Like |
2012
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Letters from Rifka | Karen Hesse | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Morning Girl | Michael Dorris | Honor | Log In To Like |
| Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti | Frances Temple | Honor | Log In To Like |
2011
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Mozart Season | Virginia Euwer Wolff | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Striped Ships | Eloise McGraw | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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Stepping on the Cracks | Mary Downing Hahn | Honor | Log In To Like |
2010
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Shining Company | Rosemary Sutcliff | Winner | Log In To Like |
2009
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Weetzie Bat | Francesca Lia Block | Winner | Log In To Like |
| Lucie Babbidge’s House | Sylvia Cassedy | Honor | Log In To Like |
2008
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Eva | Peter Dickinson | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | Honor | Log In To Like |
2007
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Memory | Margaret Mahy | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Waiting for the Rain | Sheila Gordon | Honor | Log In To Like |
2006
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Howl's Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Shadow in the Plate | Philip Pullman | Honor | Log In To Like | |
| The Tricksters | Margaret Mahy | Honor | Log In To Like |
2005
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Catalogue of the Universe | Margaret Mahy | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Fire and Hemlock | Diana Wynne Jones | Honor | Log In To Like |
2004
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| White Peak Farm | Berlie Doherty | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Angel Square | Brian Doyle | Honor | Log In To Like |
2003
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Long Night Watch | Ivan Southall | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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A Solitary Blue | Cynthia Voigt | Honor | Log In To Like |
2002
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| A Formal Feeling | Zibby Oneal | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Story for a Black Night | Clayton Bess | Honor | Log In To Like |
2001
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Seventh Raven | Peter Dickinson | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Night Journey | Kathryn Lasky | Honor | Log In To Like |
2000
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Keeper of the Isis Light | Monica Hughes | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Fledgling | Jane Langton | Honor | Log In To Like |
1999
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Throwing Shadows | E. L. Konigsburg | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| The Disappearance | Rosa Guy | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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Words by Heart | Ouida Sebestyn | Honor | Log In To Like |
1998
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| A Chance Child | Jill Paton Walsh | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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The Devil in Vienna | Doris Orgel | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Beauty | Robin McKinley | Honor | Log In To Like |
1997
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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I Am the Cheese | Robert Cormier | Winner | Log In To Like |
1996
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Stone Book | Alan Garner | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Abel's Island | William Steig | Honor | Log In To Like |
1995
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | Honor | Log In To Like |
1994
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Of Nightingales That Weep | Katherine Paterson | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Listen for the Fig Tree | Sharon Bell Mathis | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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My Brother Sam Is Dead | James Lincoln Collier | Honor | Log In To Like |
1993
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Carrie's War | Nina Bawden | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver | E. L. Konigsburg | Honor | Log In To Like |
1992
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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A Sound of Chariots | Mollie Hunter | Winner | Log In To Like |
1991
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| A Long Way from Verona | Jane Gardam | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Le Guin | Honor | Log In To Like |
| A Game of Dark | William Mayne | Honor | Log In To Like |
1990
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Enchantress from the Stars | Sylvia Engdahl | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Ravensgill | William Mayne | Honor | Log In To Like | |
| Sing Down the Moon | Scott O'Dell | Honor | Log In To Like |
1989
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Night Watchmen | Helen Cresswell | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Pistol | Adrienne Richard | Honor | Log In To Like | |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime? | Milton Meltzer | Honor | Log In To Like |
1988
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Rider and his Horse | Erik Christian Haugaard | Winner | Log In To Like |
1987
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Smith | Leon Garfield | Winner | Log In To Like |
1986
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Queenie Peavy | Robert Burch | Winner | Log In To Like |
1985
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| The Mark of the Horse Lord | Rosemary Sutcliff | Winner | Log In To Like |