William Allen White Childens Book Award - Grades 6-8

Awards List

2016

Navigating Early
(Nominee)
Clare Vanderpool

One Came Home
(Nominee)
Amy Timberlake

Beholding Bee
(Nominee)
Kimberly Fusco

Hold Fast
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

Doll Bones
(Nominee)
Holly Black

The Girl from Felony Bay
(Nominee)
J.E. Thompson

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
(Nominee)
Chris Grabenstein

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
(Nominee)
Kathi Appelt

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

The Great Trouble
(Nominee)
Deborah Hopkinson

The Real Boy
(Nominee)
Anne Ursu

2015

Buddy
(Winner)
M.H. Herlong

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

The Shadow Collector's Apprentice
(Nominee)
Amy Gordon

13 Hangmen
(Nominee)
Art Corriveau

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Ungifted
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Buddy
(Nominee)
M.H. Herlong

Katerina's Wish
(Nominee)
Jeannie Mobley

The Dogs of Winter
(Nominee)
Bobbie Pyron

2014

Hidden
(Winner)
Helen Frost

Small as an Elephant
(Nominee)
Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Take Me to the River
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

The Silver Bowl
(Nominee)
Diane Stanley

Dragon Castle
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

Bluefish
(Nominee)
Pat Schmatz

Dead End in Norvelt
(Nominee)
Jack Gantos

2013

The "Extraordinary" Mark Twain
(Nominee)
Barbara Kerley

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Nominee)
Tom Angleberger

Mockingbird
(Nominee)
Kathryn Erskine

Zora and Me
(Nominee)
Victoria Bond; T.R. Simon

2012

Heart of a Shepherd
(Nominee)
Rosanne Parry

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
(Nominee)
Rodman Philbrick

Return to Sender
(Nominee)
Julia Alvarez

Scat
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

Amaranth
(Nominee)
Julie Berry

All the Broken Pieces
(Nominee)
Ann E. Burg

Anything But Typical
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Kelly

Wild Things
(Nominee)
Clay Carmichael

My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
(Nominee)
Afua Cooper

Operation Yes
(Nominee)
Sara Lewis Holmes

The Great Death
(Nominee)
John Smelcer

2011

The Boy Who Dared
(Winner)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Waiting for Normal
(Nominee)
Leslie Connor

A Difficult Boy
(Nominee)
M.P. Barker

Savvy
(Nominee)
Ingrid Law

The Underneath
(Nominee)
Kathi Appelt

2010

Cracker!
(Winner)
Cynthia Kadohata

Leepike Ridge
(Nominee)
N.D. Wilson

Miss Spitfire
(Nominee)
Sarah Miller

Elijah of Buxton
(Nominee)
Christopher Paul Curtis

2009

Rules
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

Gossamer
(Nominee)
Lois Lowry

Confessions from the Principal's Chair
(Nominee)
Anna Myers

2008

Airball
(Winner)
L.D. Harkrader

The Naked Mole-Rat Letters
(Nominee)
Mary Amato

Black Storm Comin'
(Nominee)
Diane Lee Wilson

Adam Canfield of the Slash
(Nominee)
Michael Winerip

Princess Academy
(Nominee)
Shannon Hale

2007

So B. It
(Winner)
Sarah Weeks

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

The Old Willis Place
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

2006

The City of Ember
(Winner)
Jeanne Duprau

2005

Surviving the Applewhites
(Winner)
Stephanie S. Tolan

2003

Dovey Coe
(Winner)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

2002

Bud, Not Buddy
(Winner)
Christopher Paul Curtis

2001

Holes
(Winner)
Louis Sachar

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Grades 3-5

Grades 6-8

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