Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award (1984-2007)

This Award is presented for a work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher and set in the New World. It was founded by author Scott O'Dell in the hopes of encouraging authors, particularly new ones, to write more historical fiction.

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The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award.

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages (2007)

The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich (2006)

Worth by A. LaFaye (2005)

A River Between Us by Richard Peck (2004)

Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall (2003)

The Land by Mildred D. Taylor (2002)

The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle (2001)

Two Suns in the Sky by Miriam Bat-Ami (2000)

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet (1999)

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (1998)

Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson (1997)

The Bomb by Theodore Taylor (1996)

Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury (1995)

Bull Run by Paul Fleischman (1994)

Morning Girl by Michael Dorris (1993)

Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn (1992)

A Time of Troubles by Pieter Van Raven (1991)

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder (1990)

The Honorable Prison by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins (1989)

Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty (1988)

Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'Dell (1987)

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (1986)

The Fighting Ground by Avi (1985)

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (1984)