Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winners

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Winners

	A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 5,350 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 6,923 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 28,055 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 11,006 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enemy: Detroit, 1954 by Sara Holbrook 4.01 avg rating — 237 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai 4.53 avg rating — 4,794 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren Stelson (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 2,101 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 678 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery 4.17 avg rating — 3,579 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer 4.39 avg rating — 1,213 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 279 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh 4.40 avg rating — 5,863 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 2,631 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 3,573 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson 4.10 avg rating — 1,601 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 7,247 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling 3.98 avg rating — 1,261 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Susan L. Roth 4.16 avg rating — 436 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park 4.27 avg rating — 79,758 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser 4.18 avg rating — 455 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge 4.27 avg rating — 782 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan by Jeanette Winter 4.19 avg rating — 962 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shepherd's Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter 3.81 avg rating — 472 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Honor Book for Older Children (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle 3.95 avg rating — 2,703 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Frances Foster Books) by Claire A. Nivola 4.22 avg rating — 759 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimner 4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCully 3.84 avg rating — 126 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata 3.91 avg rating — 4,590 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual by Amy Lee-Tai 4.01 avg rating — 281 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 342 ratings Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars