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2022 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
From Deborah Stevenson, chair of the O'Dell Award committee: Champaign, IL (January 10, 2022) — The 2022 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland, published by Balzer + Bray. Ophie is twelve when she sees a ghost for the first time: her father’s spirit warns her...
The 2021 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
from Deborah Stevenson: The 2021 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to All He Knew by Helen Frost, published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. It’s 1939, and six-year-old Henry, rendered deaf by illness, has failed a ridiculous single evaluative test, so authorities officially classify him as “unteachable” and direct his straitened...
2019 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
From the BCCB's Deborah Stevenson, chair of the O'Dell Award committee: Champaign, IL (January 18, 2019)—The 2019 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Finding Langston, by Lesa Cline-Ransome, published by Holiday House. Chicago brings culture shock for eleven-year-old Langston, who moves there from Alabama with his father in 1946 after his mother...
The 2018 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
from O'Dell committee chair Deborah Stevenson:The 2018 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Beyond the Bright Sea, by Lauren Wolk, published by Dutton Books for Young readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers.The isolated world of the Elizabeth Islands off of mainland Massachusetts in 1925 comes to life...
The 2017 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
The 2017 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Full of Beans, by Jennifer L. Holm, published by Random House Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books. Narrator Beans Curry immerses middle-grade readers in his kid world of Depression-era Key West, where he and his...
The 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
The 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to The Hired Girl, by Laura Amy Schlitz, published by Candlewick Press.When Joan’s father burns her beloved books as an undeserved punishment for shirking her housework, the put-upon fourteen-year-old makes a reckless gambit for freedom, running away to Baltimore in search...
The 2015 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
The 2015 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Dash, by Kirby Larson, published by Scholastic Press.While Mitsi is going to miss spending time with her beloved dog Dash now that Christmas vacation is over, she is looking forward to seeing her best buds Mags and Judy. Mitsy thought...
The 2014 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
The 2014 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Kirkpatrick Hill for Bo at Ballard Creek, illustrated by LeUyen Pham; published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, a division of the Macmillan Children's Book Group.Like Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Bo at Ballard Creek...
The 2013 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
The 2013 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Louise Erdrich for Chickadee, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The annual award, created by Scott O’Dell and Zena Sutherland in 1982 and now administered by Elizabeth Hall, carries with it a prize of $5000, and goes to...
Boston's favorite son
photo by Lolly RobinsonReigning (wait, is it incoming until he actually gets his mitts on the goods?) O'Dell and Newbery Medalist Jack Gantos stopped by the office last Friday for a bit of cake and champagne to celebrate the success of Dead End in Norvelt. (And to fortify himself for his...
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