Spur Award - Juvenile Fiction (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

2022

Cow Boyhood
(Winner )
S.J. Dahlstrom

Maddie McDowell and the Rodeo Robbery
(Finalist)
LuAnn M. Rod

Bats, Bandits & Buggies: A Ruby and Maude Adventure
(Finalist)
Nancy Oswald

2021

Dilly
(Winner )
Matthew P. Mayo

Silverbelly
(Finalist)
S.J. Dahlstrom

City of Gold
(Finalist)
Will Hobbs

2020

Someplace to Call Home
(Winner )
Sandra Dallas

The Fang of Bonfire Crossing
(Finalist)
Brad McLelland; Louis Sylvester

Finding Home
(Finalist)
Corinne Joy Brown

2019

Taos Lightning
(Winner)
Johnny D. Boggs
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Rawhide Robinson Rides a Dromedary
(Finalist)
Rod Miller

Hardscrabble
(Finalist)
Sandra Dallas

2018

Stranded
(Winner)
Matthew P. Mayo

Viva, Rose!
(Finalist)
Susan Krawitz

Katrine: High Valley Home
(Finalist)
Joseph Dorris

2017

Trouble Returns
(Winner)
Nancy Oswald

The Green Colt
(Finalist)
S.J. Dahlstrom

2016

Walk on Earth a Stranger
(Winner)
Rae Carson

Chili Queen
(Finalist)
Marian L. Martinello

Rawhide Robinson Rides the Tabby Trail
(Finalist)
Rod Miller

2015

Rawhide Robinson Rides the Range
(Winner)
Rod Miller

Poison Spring
(Finalist)
Johnny D. Boggs

Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky
(Finalist)
Sandra Dallas

2014

Papa's Gold
(Winner)
Ellen Gray Massey

Summer of the Star
(Finalist)
Johnny D. Boggs

How I Became a Ghost, Book 1
(Finalist)
Tim Tingle

2013

Wide Open
(Winner)
Larry Bjornson

Blooming Prairie
(Finalist)
Candace Simar

And There I'll Be a Soldier
(Finalist)
Johnny D. Boggs

2012

Birdie: Book Three of the Abercrombie Trail Series
(Winner)
Candace Simarm

South by Southwest
(Finalist)
Johnny D. Boggs

2011

Moon over Manifest
(Winner)
Clare Vanderpool

The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors
(Finalist)
Francisco X. Stork

Crosswire
(Finalist)
Dotti Enderle

2010

Hard Winter
(Winner)
Johnny D. Boggs

Journey to Goliad
(Finalist)
Melodie A. Cuate

2009

I Am Apache
(Winner)
Tanya Landman

2008

Pedrito's World
(Finalist)
Arturo O. Martinez

2006

Black Storm Comin'
(Winner)
Diane Lee Wilson

Award Categories

Children-Y/A Fiction

Contemporary Novel

First Novel

Historical Novel

Juvenile Fiction

Long Novel

Mass Market Paperback Novel

Medicine Pipe Bearer (First Novel)

Novel of the West

Romance Novel

Short Novel

Short Story

Storyteller

Traditional Novel

Western Juv Fic

Western Long Novel

Western Novel

Award Years

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

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