Children's History Book Prize Recognizes a Story of Change—And a Supreme Court Ruling
The New-York Historical Society's Annual Children's History Book Prize Awarded to How to Find What You're Not Looking For
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The book prize was selected by a jury comprising librarians, educators, historians, and families with middle schoolers. Finalists for this year’s Children’s History Book Prize were:
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Defiant: Growing up in the Jim Crow South by Wade Hudson,
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Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh
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Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace.
Children's History Book Prize: Past Winners
Past winners of the Children’s History Book Prize include:
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Never Caught, The Story of Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve, telling the true story of Ona Judge, an enslaved woman who dared to escape to freedom from George and Martha Washington.
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Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages about one girl’s discovery of the long history of women who played baseball
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Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (authors), Yutaka Houlette (illustrator) about a young Japanese American man who defied U.S. governmental orders by refusing to report to prison camps during World War II.
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Unbound: A Novel in Verse by Ann E. Burg about a young enslaved girl who, forced with the horror of being permanently separated from her family, urges them all to flee to the swamps.
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Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan about children facing daunting challenges—rescuing a father from the Nazis, keeping a brother out of an orphanage, and protecting the farm of a Japanese family during internment.
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Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War by Helen Frost about two boys whose friendship is tested when the War of 1812 divided native and settler communities in the Indiana Territory.
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The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine about a young girl in Little Rock, Arkansas, who sees her city and family divided over school integration.
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