Sequoyah Book Award
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The Sequoyah Book Award is given each year to the book which is selected by Oklahoma students in 3rd-6th grades as their favorite. The Sequoyah Young Adult Award, which is voted for by Oklahoma students in 7th-9th grades, was created in 1988.
The first Sequoyah Award was given in April of 1959. It is presented by the Oklahoma Library Association, normally at their annual conference in the spring. The award is named after the Cherokee man, Sequoyah, who developed the Cherokee syllabary and lived in eastern Oklahoma near Sallisaw.
[edit] List of Sequoyah Book Award winners
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Old Yeller | Fred Gipson |
| 1960 | Black Gold | Marguerite Henry |
| 1961 | Have Space Suit-Will Travel | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1962 | The Helen Keller Story | Catherine O. Peare |
| 1963 | Mystery of the Haunted Pool | Phyllis Whitney |
| 1964 | Where the Panther Screams | William Robinson |
| 1965 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| 1966 | Rascal | Sterling North |
| 1967 | Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh |
| 1968 | Gentle Ben | Walt Morey |
| 1969 | Blackbeard’s Ghost | Ben Stahl |
| 1970 | Mustang | Marguerite Henry |
| 1971 | Ramona the Pest | Beverly Cleary |
| 1972 | Man in the Box | Mary Lois Dunn |
| 1973 | The Trumpet of the Swan | E.B. White |
| 1974 | Flight of the White Wolf | Mel Ellis |
| 1975 | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Judy Blume |
| 1976 | How to Eat Fried Worms | Thomas Rockwell |
| 1977 | The Toothpaste Millionaire | Jean Merrill |
| 1978 | Shoeshine Girl | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| 1979 | Summer of the Monkeys | Wilson Rawls |
| 1980 | Kid Power | Susan B. Pfeffer |
| 1981 | Get-Away Car | Eleanor Clymer |
| 1982 | Bunnicula | James Howe |
| 1983 | A Dog Called Kitty | Bill Wallace |
| 1984 | The Cybil War | Betsy Byars |
| 1985 | Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub | Jamie Gilson |
| 1986 | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary |
| Just Tell Me When We’re Dead | Eth Clifford | |
| 1987 | Night of the Twisters | Ivy Ruckman |
| 1988 | Christina’s Ghost | Betty Ren Wright |
| 1989 | The Sixth Grade Sleepover | Eve Bunting |
| 1990 | Fudge | Charlotte Graeber |
| 1991 | Beauty | Bill Wallace |
| 1992 | The Doll in the Garden | Mary Downing Hahn |
| 1993 | Weasel | Cynthia DeFelice |
| 1994 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| 1995 | Horror at the Haunted House | Peg Kehret |
| 1996 | The Ghosts of Mercy Manor | Betty Ren Wright |
| 1997 | Nasty, Stinky Sneakers | Eve Bunting |
| 1998 | Titanic Crossing | Barbara Williams |
| 1999 | 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents | Lee Wardlaw |
| 2000 | The Million Dollar Shot | Dan Gutman |
| 2001 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| 2002 | Dork in Disguise | Carol Gorman |
| 2003 | Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo |
| 2004 | Skeleton Man | Joseph Bruchac |
| 2005 | The Stranger Next Door | Peg Kehret |
| 2006 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo |
[edit] List of Sequoyah Young Adult Winners
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Abby My Love | Hadley Irwin |
| 1989 | The Other Side of Dark | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| 1990 | Hatchet | Gary Paulsen |
| 1991 | A Sudden Silence | Eve Bunting |
| 1992 | Appointment with a Stranger | Jean Thesman |
| 1993 | The Silver Kiss | Annette Curtis Klause |
| 1994 | What Daddy Did | Neal Shusterman |
| 1995 | Flight 116 is Down | Caroline B. Cooney |
| 1996 | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| 1997 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech |
| 1998 | Running Out of Time | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| 1999 | Danger Zone | David Klass |
| 2000 | I Have Lived A Thousand Years | Livia Bitton-Jackson |
| 2001 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| 2002 | Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| 2003 | Define Normal | Julie Ann Peters |
| 2004 | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares |
| 2005 | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer |
| 2006 | Eragon | Christopher Paolini |
