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Christopher Award Winners
Listed alphabetically by author
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Ada,
Alma Flor |
The
Gold Coin |
CA
1992 |
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Alexander,
Martha |
I’ll
Protect You From the Jungle Beasts |
CA
1974 |
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Alexander,
Sally Hobart |
Taking
Hold: My Journey into Blindness |
CA
1995 |
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Anno,
Mitsumaso |
Anno’s
Alphabet: An Adventure in Imagination (Anno is a flashpoint - he is Japanese,
a remarkable artist) |
CA
1976 |
|
Armstrong,
William H. |
Sounder |
LCS |
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Arnosky,
Jim |
Drawing
From Nature |
CA
1983 |
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Ashabranner,
Brent and Melissa |
Into
A Strange Land: Unaccompanied Refugee Youth in America |
CA
1988 |
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Avi |
Encounter
at Easton |
CA
1981 |
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Ayer, Eleanor |
Parallel Journeys (**WW2
nonfiction) |
CA 1996 |
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Babbitt, Natalie |
Tuck Everlasting |
LCS, CA 1976 |
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Bancroft, Griffling |
Vanishing Wings: A Tale of
Three Birds of Prey |
CA 1973 |
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Bauer, Caroline |
My Mom Travels a Lot |
CA 1982 |
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Bodecker, N. M. |
It’s Raining Said John
Twaining: Danish Nursery Rhymes |
CA 1974 |
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Bodecker, N. M. |
Hurry Hurry Mary Dear!
&other Nonsense Poems |
CA 1977 |
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Bridgers, Sue Ellen |
All Together Now |
CA 1980 |
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Briggs, Raymond |
The Snowman |
LCS |
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Bullard, Pamela |
The Hardest Lesson: Personal
Stories of a School Desegregation Crisis |
CA 1981 |
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Bulla, Clyde Robert (ill,
Peter Burchard) |
Pocahontas and the Strangers |
CA 1972 |
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Burnford, Sheila |
The Incredible Journey: A
Tale of Three Animals |
LCS |
|
Calvert, Patricia |
Glennis, Before and After |
CA 1997 |
|
Christopher, John |
The Guardians |
CA 1971 |
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Cleary, Beverly |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
CA 1984 |
|
Clements, Andrew |
Frindle |
CA 1997 |
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Coutant, Helen |
First Snow |
CA 1975 |
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Cunningham, Julia |
Come to the Edge |
LCS, CA 1978 |
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Cunningham, Julia |
Dorp Dead |
LCS |
|
Davar, Ashok |
The Wheel of King Asoka |
CA1978 |
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DePaolo, Paula (illus. Janet
Wolf) |
Rosie and the Yellow Ribbon |
CA 1993 |
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Doren, Marion Walker |
Borrowed Summer |
CA 1987 |
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Drury, Roger W. |
The Champion of Merrimack
County |
CA 1977 |
|
Easterling, Bill (illlus
Mary Beth Owens) |
Prize in the Snow |
CA 1995 |
|
Edmonds, Catherine et.al. |
The New York Kid’s Book: 170
Children’s Writers and Artists Celebrate New York |
CA 1980 |
|
Edmonds, Walter D. |
Bert Breen’s Barn |
CA 1976 |
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Engdahl, Sylvia |
This Star Shall Abide |
CA 1973 |
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Enright, Elizabeth |
Gone-Away Lake |
LCS |
|
Eyerly, Jeannette |
Escape From Nowhere |
CA 1970 |
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Feldbaum, Carl B. |
Looking the Tiger in the
Eye: Confronting the Nuclear Threat (sounds deadly earnest) |
CA 1989 |
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Fenner, Carol |
Gorilla Gorilla |
CA 1974 |
|
Flournoy, Valerie |
The Patchwork Quilt |
CA 1986 |
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Fowler, Susi and Jim (ages
4-6) |
I’ll See You When the Moon
is Full |
CA 1995 |
|
Fox, Michael |
The Wolf |
CA 1974 |
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Fox, Paula |
One-Eyed Cat |
CA 1985 |
|
Friedman, Ina R. |
How My Parents Learned to
Eat (a personal favourite of mine, but not
a pricey book) |
CA 1985 |
|
Friis-Baastaad, Babbis |
Don’t Take Teddy! |
LCS |
|
Fritz, Jean |
Homesick: My Own Story |
CA 1983 |
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Gellman, Rabbi Mark |
Where does God Live?
Questions and Answers for Parents and Children |
CA 1992 |
|
Gerson, Corinne |
Son for a Day |
CA 1981 |
|
Glenn, Mel |
Class Dismissed II: More
High School Poems |
CA 1987 |
|
Grutman, Jewel H. & Gay
Matthaei |
The Ledgerbook of Thomas
Blue Eagle |
CA 1995 |
|
Hamilton, Virginia |
M.C.Higgins the Great |
LCS |
|
Hamilton, Virginia |
The Planet of Junior Brown |
LCS |
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Harrison, David L. |
The Book of Giant Stories |
CA 1973 |
|
Hautzig, Esther |
The Endless Steppe: A Girl
in Exile |
LCS |
|
Hazen, Barbara Shook |
Even if I did Something
Awful |
CA 1982 |
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Hesse, Karen |
Letters from Rifka |
CA 1993 |
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Hest, Amy (illus Amy Schwartz) |
The Purple Coat |
CA 1987 |
|
Hoban, Russell (illus
Lillian Hoban) |
Emmet Otter’s Jug Band
Christmas |
CA 1972 |
|
Hoose, Phillip |
It’s Our World, Too! Stories
of Young People Who Are Making a Difference |
CA 1994 |
|
Hopkins, Lee Bennett |
Been to Yesterdays: Poems of
a Life |
CA 1996 |
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Howard, Ellen (illus. Ronald
Himler - age 4-6) |
The Log Cabin Quilt |
CA 1997 |
|
Hunter, Kristin |
Guests in the Promised Land |
CA 1974 |
|
Jarrell, Randall |
The Animal Family |
LCS |
|
Janssen, Pierre |
A Moment of Silence |
CA 1971 |
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Kantrowitz, Mildred (illus.
Nancy Parker) |
Willy Bear |
CA 1977 |
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Kaufman, William I. |
UNICEF Book of Children’s
Legends |
CA 1971 |
|
Kaufman, William I. |
UNICEF Book of Children’s
Poems |
CA 1971 |
|
Kaufman, William I. |
UNICEF Book of Children’s
Prayers |
CA 1971 |
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Kaufman, William I. |
UNICEF Book of Children’s
Songs |
CA 1971 |
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Kerr, M.E. |
Gentlehands |
CA 1979 |
|
Kherdian, David |
The Road From Home: the
Story of an Armenian Girl |
LCS |
|
Koehn, Ilse |
Mischling, Second Degree: My
Childhood in Nazi Germany |
LCS |
|
Kraft, Betsy Harvey |
Mother Jones: One Woman’s
Fight for Labor |
CA 1996 |
|
Kuklin, Susan |
Irrepressible Spirit:
Conversations with Human Rights Advocates |
CA 1997 |
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LeGuin, Ursula |
A Wizard of Earthsea |
LCS |
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Lester, Julius |
To Be a Slave |
LCS |
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Levitin, Sonia |
The No-Return Trail |
LCS |
|
Lionni, Leo |
Alexander and the Wind-Up
Mouse |
CA 1970 |
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Liston, Robert A. |
The Right to Know:
Censorship in America |
CA 1974 |
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Lobel, Arnold |
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant
Sailed into Town |
CA 1972 |
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Lobel, Arnold |
Frog and Toad All Year |
CA 1977 |
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Locker, Thomas |
Family Farm |
CA 1989 |
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Longfellow (illus. Ted Rand) |
Paul Revere’s Ride |
CA 1991 |
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Macaulay, David |
Pyramid |
CA 1976 |
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MacCloud, Malcolm |
A Gift of Mirrorvax |
CA 1982 |
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MacLachlan, Patricia |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
CA 1986 |
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Margolis, Richard J. |
Secrets of a Small Brother |
CA 1985 |
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Marsden, John |
So Much to Tell You.... |
CA 1990 |
|
Mazer, Norma Fox |
Dear Bill, Remember Me? And
Other Stories |
LCS, CA 1977 |
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McCully, Emily Arnold |
Picnic |
CA 1985 |
|
McDermott, Gerald |
Anansi the Spider, a Tale
from the Ashanti |
LCS |
|
Meltzer, Milton |
All Times All Peoples: a
World History of Slavery |
CA 1981 |
|
Meltzer, Milton |
Brother Can You Spare a
Dime? The Great De |
CA 1970 |
|
Miles, Miska |
Annie and the Old One |
CA 1972 |
|
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
Keeping a Christmas Secret |
CA 1990 |
|
O’Brien, Robert C. |
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of
NIMH |
LCS |
|
Oneal, Zibby |
A Formal Feeling |
CA 1983 |
|
Paterson, Katherine |
The Great Gilly Hopkins |
CA 1979 |
|
Paterson, Katherine |
Bridge to Terabithia |
LCS |
|
Peterson, Esther Allen |
Frederick’s Alligator |
CA 1980 |
|
Pfister, Marcus |
The Rainbow Fish |
CA 1993 |
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Polese, Carolyn |
Promise Not to Tell |
CA 1986 |
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Pomerantz, Charlotte |
Posy |
CA 1984 |
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Richardson, Jean (illus.
Alice Englander) |
Stephen’s Feast |
CA 1992 |
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Rodgers, Mary |
A Billion for Boris |
CA 1975 |
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Rodgers, Mary |
Freaky Friday |
CA 1973 |
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Sachs, Marilyn |
Underdog |
CA 1986 |
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Samuels, Barbara |
Duncan and Dolores |
CA 1987 |
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Scheidl, Gerda Marie |
The Crystal Ball (ill.
Nathalie Duroussy) |
CA 1994 |
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Schertle, Alice |
William and Grandpa |
CA 1990 |
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Schroeder, Alan (illus.
Jerry Pinkney) |
Minty: A Story of Young
Harriet Tubman |
CA 1997 |
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Scott, Cora Annett (illus.
Steven Kellogg - great illustrator) |
How the Witch Got Alf |
CA 1976 |
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Seidler, Rosalie |
Panda Cake |
CA 1979 |
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Selden, George |
Tucker’s Countryside |
CA 1970 |
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Skurzynski, Gloria |
What Happened in Hamelin |
CA 1980 |
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Smith, Howard G. |
Tracking the Unearthly
Creatures of Marsh and Pond |
CA 1973 |
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
The Headless Cupid |
CA 1972 |
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
The Changeling |
CA 1971 |
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
The Egypt Game |
LCS |
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Speare, Elizabeth George |
The Sign of the Beaver |
CA 1984 |
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Spier, Peter |
People |
CA 1981 |
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Spier, Peter |
The Erie Canal |
CA 1971 |
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Spier, Peter |
Noah’s Ark |
LCS, CA 1978 |
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Spinelli, Eileen (illus.
Paul Yalowitz) |
Somebody Loves You, Mr.
Hatch |
CA 1992 |
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Steele, Mary Q |
Journey Outside |
LCS |
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St. George, Judith |
The Mount Rushmore Story |
CA 1986 |
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Steig, William |
Dominic |
CA 1973 |
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Steig, William |
Abel’s Island |
LCS |
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Steig, William |
Sylvester and the Magic
Pebble |
LCS |
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Stevenson, James (great
illustrator) |
We Can’t Sleep |
CA 1983 |
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Strauss, Joyce |
Imagine That! Exploring Make
Believe |
CA 1985 |
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Taylor, Mildred D. |
The Gold Cadillac |
CA 1988 |
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Taylor, Mildred D. |
Mississippi Bridge |
CA 1991 |
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Taylor, Theodore |
The Cay |
LCS |
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Townsend, John Rowe |
The Islanders |
CA 1982 |
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Turkle, Brinton |
The Adventures of Obadiah |
CA 1973 |
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van der Rol, Ruud, &
Rien Verhoeven |
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary |
CA1994 |
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Viorst, Judith |
The Good-Bye Book |
CA 1989 |
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Vireck, Phillip |
The Summer I was Lost |
LCS |
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Wahl, Jan (illus William
Joyce) |
Humphrey’s Bear |
CA 1988 |
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Walter, Mildred Pitts |
Mississippi Challenge |
CA 1993 |
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Weiss, Ann |
Lies, Deception and Truth |
CA 1989 |
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Weiss, Ann |
Save the Mustangs! How a
Federal Law is Passed (does NOT sound flashpoint-like) |
CA 1975 |
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Weiss, Ann- another deadly
title - > |
The Nuclear Arms Race: Can
We Survive It? |
CA 1984 |
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Williams, Barbara (illus Kay
Chorao - who is a “name” in illustration) |
Chester Chipmunk’s
Thanksgiving |
CA 1979 |
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Whitfield, Philp |
Can the Whales be Saved? |
CA 1990 |
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Wojciechowski, Susan |
The Christmas Miracle of
Jonathan Toomey |
CA 1996 |
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Wood, Audrey |
Heckedy Peg |
CA 1988 |
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Yep, Laurence |
Dragonwings |
LCA |
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Yep, Laurence |
The Star Fisher |
CA 1992 |
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Yolen, Jane |
The Seeing Stick |
CA 1978 |
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Zolotow, Charlotte |
My Grandson Lew |
CA 1975 |