Established by, duh, Scott O'Dell, this is awarded annually to a work for young people set in the New World and written by a US citizen. I don't know who picks the books - I should hope it's not O'Dell, as he won in 1987, plus he's dead now.
So far:
1999 - Harriette Gillem Robinet. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
1998 - Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust
1997 - Katherine Paterson. Jip: His Story
1996 - Theodore Taylor. The Bomb
1995 - Graham Salisbury. Under the Blood Red Sun
1994 - Paul Fleischman. Bull Run
1993 - Michael Dorris. Morning Girl
1992 - Mary Downing Hahn. Stepping on the Cracks
1991 - Pieter Van Raven. A Time of Troubles
1990 - Carolyn Reeder. Shades of Gray
1989 - Lyll Becerra de Jenkins. The Honorable Prison
1988 - Patricia Beatty. Charley Skedaddle
1987 - Scott O'Dell. Streams to the River, River to the Sea
1986 - Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985 - Avi. The Fighting Ground
1984 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Sign of the Beaver
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