William Allen White Award Winning Books

Here are the winning books from every year since 1953, the first year of the William Allen White Award.

2011
Grades 3-5: Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
Grades 6-8: The Boy Who Dared: a Novel Based on the True Story of Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2010
Grades 3-5: How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor
Grades 6-8: Cracker! The Best Dog in Viet Nam by Cynthia Kadohata
2009
Grades 3-5: Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Grades 6-8: Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
2008
Grades 3-5: A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M Martin
Grades 6-8: Airball: My Life in Briefs by L.D. Harkrader
2007
Grades 3-5: The Report Card by Andrew Clements
Grades 6-8: So B. It by Sarah Weeks
2006
Grades 3-5: Donuthead by Sue Stauffacher
Grades 6-8: The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
2005
Grades 3-5: Loser by Jerry Spinelli
Grades 6-8: Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2004
Grades 3-5: Ghost Sitter by Peni R. Griffin
Grades 6-8: Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren
2003
Grades 3-5: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Grades 6-8: Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark Dowell
2002
Grades 3-5: The Landry News by Andrew Clements
Grades 6-8: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
2001
Grades 3-5: The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia C. DeFelice
Grades 6-8: Holes by Louis Sachar
2000
White Water by P. J. Petersen
1999
Frindle by Andrew Clements
1998
Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
1997
Time for Andrew, A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
1996
The Giver by Lois Lowry
1995
The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood
1994
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1993
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1992
The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
1991
Beauty by Bill Wallace
1990
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1989
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
1988
Cracker Jackson by Betsy Byars
1987
The War With Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
1986
Daphne’s Book by Mary Downing Hahn
1985
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong
1984
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
1983
Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Brooks Wallace
1982
The Magic of the Glits by Carole S. Adler
1981
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1980
The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
1979
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
1978
The Great Christmas Kidnaping Caper by Jean Van Leeuwen
1977
Harry Cat’s Pet Puppy by George Selden Thompson
1976
Socks by Beverly Cleary
1975
Dominic by William Steig
1974 (tie)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1973
The Trumpet of the Swan bv E. B. White
1972
Sasha: My Friend by Barbara Corcoran
1971
Kavik: The Wolf Dog by Walter Morey
1970
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
1969
Henry Reed’s Baby-Sitting Service by Keith Robertson
1968
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
1967
The Grizzly by Annabel and Edgar Johnson
1966
Rascal by Sterling North
1965
Bristle Face by Kelly R. Masters (Zachary Ball, pseud.)
1964
The Incredible Journey by Sheila (Every) Burnford
1963
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
1962
The Helen Keller Story by Catherine Owens Peare
1961
Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson
1960
Flaming Arrows by William O. Steele
1959
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
1958
White Falcon by Elliott Arnold
1957
Daniel ‘Coon by Phoebe Erickson
1956
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
1955
Cherokee Bill: Oklahoma Pacer by Jean Bailey
1954
Little Vic by Doris Gates
1953
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

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