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Help us support Westlake Academy by stocking the library and buying some great Westlake Academy merchandise. Bring one or more new or used books and receive a 10% discount ot cool new items such as caps, mugs, mouse pads and decals. The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is an excellent reference for books suitable for the library.

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature

National Book Foundation.

Presented each year in November to recognize the outstanding contribution to children's literature. The National Book Award for Young People's Literature carries a $10,000 cash prize and the award committee will consider books of all genres written for children and young adults by U.S. writers with an emphasis on literary merit.

The Young People's category was added to the National Book Awards in 1996. A Children's Books category had previously existed in the National Book Award/American Book Awards program from 1969 to 1983.

1998

Holes, by Louis Sachar

Other Nominees

The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods, Ann Cameron
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, Jack Gantos
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War, Anita Lobel
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck

1997

Dancing on the Edge, Han Nolan (Harcourt Brace)

Other Nominees:

The Facts Speak for Themselves, Brock Cole (Front Street)
Sons of Liberty, Adele Griffin (Hyperion)
Where You Belong, Mary Ann McGuigan (Atheneum)
Mean Margaret, Tor Seidler (HarperCollins)

1996

Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida by Victor Martinez (HarperCollins Publishers/Joanna Colter Books)

Other Nominees:

What Jamie Saw, by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
A Girl Named Disaster, by Nancy Farmer (Orchard Books/Richard Jackson Books)
The Long Season of Rain, by Helen Kim (Henry Holt)
Send Me Down a Miracle, by Han Nolan (Harcourt Brace)

American Book Awards (1980-1983)

1983

Hardcover Fiction: Homesick: My Own Story, by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
Paperback Fiction: Marked by Fire, by Joyce Carol Thomas (Avon) and A Place Apart, by Paula Fox (NAL)
Nonfiction: Chimney Sweeps, by James Cross Giblin (Crowell)
Hardcover Picture Book: Doctor De Soto, by William Steig (Farrar) and Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney (Viking)
Paperback Picture Book: A House is a House for Me, by Mary Ann Hoberman, ill. by Betty Fraser (Puffin)

1982

Hardcover Fiction: Westmark, by Lloyd Alexander (Dutton)
Paperback Fiction: Words by Heart, Ouida Sebestyen (Bantam)
Nonfiction: A Penguin Year, by Susan Bonners (Delacorte)
Hardcover Picture Book: Outside Over There, by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Paperback Picture Book: Noah's Ark, by Peter Spier (Doubleday)

1981

Hardcover Fiction: The Night Swimmers, by Betsy Byars (Delacorte)
Paperback Fiction: Ramona and her Mother, by Beverly Cleary (Dell)
Nonfiction: Oh, Boy! Babies, by Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali (Little)

1980

Hardcover Fiction: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journey, 1830-1832, by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
Paperback Fiction: A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle (Dell)

National Book Award (1969-1979)

1979 - The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1978 - The View From the Oak, by Judith and Herbert Kohl (Sierra Club/Scribner)
1977 - The Master Puppeteer, by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1976 - Bert Breen's Barn, by Walter D. Edmonds (Little)
1975 - M.C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1974 - The Court of the Stone Children, by Eleanor Cameron (Dutton)
1973 - The Farthest Shore, by Ursula Le Guin (Atheneum)
1972 - The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, by Donald Barthelme (Farrar)
1971 - The Marvellous Misadventures of Sebastian, by Lloyd Alexander (Dutton)
1970 - A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)
1969 - Journey From Peppermint Street, by Meindert DeJong (Harper)

Thursday, November 19, 1998 United States Book Awards from: The Children's Literature Web Guide