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Established in 1981 by Scott O'Dell, the Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award is presented for a work of historical fiction set in the United States.
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2007 - Ellen Klages. The Green Glass Sea
2006 - Louise Erdrich. The Game of Silence
2005 - A. LaFaye. Worth
2004 - Richard Peck. The River Between Us
2003 - Shelley Pearsall. Trouble Don't Last
2002 - Mildred D. Taylor. The Land
2001 - Janet Taylor Lisle. The Art of Keeping Cool
2000 - Miriam Bat-Ami. Two Suns in the Sky
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