The Josette Frank Award is an American annual children's literary award for fiction that "honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally". Known as the Children's Book Award from 1943 to 1997, it was renamed in honor of Josette Frank, the editor of many anthologies for children and a former Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America. The award is given annually by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education. The prize to the author of the book has been provided by the Florence L. Miller Memorial Fund.
Winners
Two winners have been named in several years, none in 1951. 2018: Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson 2017: The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones by Wendelin van Draanen 2016: The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 2015: I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson 2014: Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein 2013: Wonder by R. J. Palacio 2012: Bluefish by Pat Schmatz 2011: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin 2010: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly 2009: After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson 2008: Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate 2007: Clementine by Sara Pennypacker 2006: Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles 2004: Ida B and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and Save the World by Katherine Hannigan 2003: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale 2002: Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney 2001: Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. Williams 2000: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo 1999: Figuring Out Frances by Gina Willner-Pardo 1998: My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt 1997: No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa by Beverley Naidoo 1996: The Cuckoo's Child by Suzanne Freeman 1995: Music from a Place Called Half Moon by Jerrie Oughton 1994: Earthshine by Theresa Nelson 1993: Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff 1992: Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury 1991: Shadow Boy by Susan E. Kirby 1990: Secret City, USA by Felice Holman 1989: Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder 1988: The Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann Cameron 1987: Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry 1986: Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo 1985: With Westie and the Tin Man by C.S. Adler 1984: One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox 1983: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare 1982: Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz 1981: A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind by Athena Lord 1980: A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Wartski 1979: The Whipman is Watching by T.A. Dyer 1978: The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel 1977: The Pinballs by Betsy Byars 1976: Somebody Else's Child by Roberta Silman 1975: The Garden is Doing Fine by Carol Farley 1974: Luke Was There by Eleanor Clymer 1973: A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith 1972: A Sound of Chariots by Mollie Hunter 1971: John Henry McCoy by Lillie D. Chafin 1970: Rock Star by James Lincoln Collier 1969: The Empty Moat by Margaretha Shemin 1968: What It's All About by Vadim Frolov 1967: The Contender by Robert Lipsyte 1966: Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch 1965: The Empty Schoolhouse by Natalie Savage Carlson 1964: The High Pasture by Ruth Harnden 1963: The Peaceable Revolution by Betty Schechter 1962: The Trouble With Terry by John Lexau 1961: The Road to Agra by Aimee Sommerfelt 1960: Janine by Robin McKown 1959: Jennifer by Zoa Sherburne 1958: South Town by Lorenz Graham 1957: Shadow Across the Campus by Helen R. Sattley 1956: The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong 1955: Plain Girl by Virginia Sorenson 1954: The Ordeal of the Young Hunter by Jonreed Lauritzen 1953: In a Mirror by Mary Stolz 1952: Jareb by Miriam Powell 1951: No Award 1950: Partners: The United Nations and Youth by Eleanor Roosevelt & Helen Ferris 1949: Paul Tiber: Forester by Maria Gleit 1948: The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck 1947: Judy's Journey by Lois Lenski 1946: Heart of Danger by Howard Pease 1945: The Moved-Outers by Florence Cranell Means 1944: The House by Marjorie Hill Allee 1943: Keystone Kids by John R. Tunis
