Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction Winners Historical Fiction

Awards List

2023

African Town (Winner)
Charles Waters

Jan-2022
/ General Fiction

2022

Ophie's Ghosts (Winner)
Justina Ireland

May-2021
/ Mystery

2021

All He Knew (Winner)
Helen Frost

Aug-2020
/ Historical

2020

Butterfly Yellow (Winner)
Thanhha Lai

Sep-2019
/ Historical

2019

Finding Langston (Winner)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Aug-2018
/ Historical

2018

Beyond the Bright Sea (Winner)
Lauren Wolk

May-2017
/ Historical

2017

Full of Beans (Winner)
Jennifer L. Holm

Sep-2016
/ Historical

2016

The Hired Girl (Winner)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Sep-2015
/ Historical

2015

Dash (Winner)
Kirby Larson

Sep-2014
/ Historical

2014

Bo at Ballard Creek (Winner)
Kirkpatrick Hill

Jun-2013
/ Historical

2013

Chickadee (Winner)
Louise Erdrich

Aug-2012
/ General Fiction

2012

Dead End in Norvelt (Winner)
Jack Gantos

Sep-2011
/ Action Adventure

2011

One Crazy Summer (Winner)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Feb-2010
/ General Fiction

2010

The Storm in the Barn (Winner)
Matt Phelan

Sep-2009
/ Historical

2009

Chains (Winner)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Oct-2008
/ Historical

2008

Elijah of Buxton (Winner)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Aug-2007
/ General Fiction

2007

The Green Glass Sea (Winner)
Ellen Klages

Oct-2006
/ General Fiction

2006

The Game of Silence (Winner)
Louise Erdrich

May-2005
/ Historical

2005

Worth (Winner)
A. La Faye

Jun-2004
/ General Fiction

2004

The River Between Us (Winner)
Richard Peck

Oct-2003
/ General Fiction

2003

Trouble Don't Last (Winner)
Shelley Pearsall

Dec-2003
/ General Fiction

2002

The Land (Winner)
Mildred D. Taylor

Sep-2001
/ Historical

2001

The Art of Keeping Cool (Winner)
Janet Taylor Lisle

Oct-2000
/ Historical

2000

Two Suns in the Sky (Winner)
Miriam Bat-Ami

Nov-2001
/ Romance

1999

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule (Winner)
Harriette Gillem Robinet

Nov-1998
/ Historical

1998

Out of the Dust (Winner)
Karen Hesse

1997
/ General Fiction

1997

Jip: His Story (Winner)
Katherine Paterson

Oct-1996
/ Historical

1996

The Bomb (Winner)
Theodore Taylor

Aug-2007
/ Historical

1995

The Blood Red Sun (Winner)
Graham Salisbury

Sep-1994
/ General Fiction

1994

Bull Run (Winner)
Paul Fleischman

Jan-1993
/ General Fiction

1993

Morning Girl (Winner)
Michael Dorris

/ General Fiction

1992

Stepping on the Cracks (Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

Oct-1991
/ General Fiction

1991

A Time of Troubles (Winner)
Pieter Van Raven

Oct-1990
/ General Fiction

1990

Shades of Gray (Winner)
Carolyn Reeder

1989
/ Historical

1989

The Honorable Prison (Winner)
Lyll Becerra de Jenkins

Feb-1988
/ General Fiction

1988

Charley Skedaddle (Winner)
Patricia Beatty

Oct-1987
/ Fantasy

1987

Streams to the River, River to the Sea (Winner)
Scott O'Dell

May-1986
/ General Fiction

1986

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Winner)
Patricia MacLachlan

Apr-1985
/ Historical

1985

The Fighting Ground (Winner)
Avi

May-1984
/ Historical

1984

Sign of the Beaver (Winner)
Elizabeth George Speare

1983
/ Historical

Award Categories

Historical Fiction

Award Years