• Source: Mark Twain Readers Award

The Mark Twain Readers Award, or simply Mark Twain Award, is a children's book award which annually recognizes one book selected by vote of Missouri schoolchildren from a list prepared by librarians and volunteer readers. It is now one of four Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Readers Awards and is associated with school grades 4 to 6; the other MASL Readers Awards were inaugurated from 1995 to 2009 and are associated with grades K–3, 6–8, 9–12 and nonfiction. The 1970 Newbery Medal winning book Sounder, by William H. Armstrong, was the inaugural winner of the Mark Twain Award in 1972.
Peg Kehret has won the Mark Twain Award four times, once in 1999 for Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, a memoir of her childhood, and three times in six years from 2007 to 2012 for novels.




Nomination guidelines


Books should interest children in grades four through six.
Books should be an original work written by an author living in the United States.
Books should be of literary value which may enrich children's personal lives.
Books should be published two years prior to nomination on a master list of twelve nominees.




Voting process


Though the list of nominated books is designated for grades four through six, any student can vote for the winner so long as they satisfy the following criteria:

Book must have been read by voter.
Voter must have read at least four books from the list of nominees.
Voter can only vote once.
Schools design their own ballots. Individual votes for each school (or qualified group) are tallied on a single sheet and submitted to the MASL.




Winners


The award has recognized a single book by a single writer without exception from 1972.

2021 Blended by Sharon Draper
2020 One for Sorrow: a Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
2019 Framed! by James Ponti
2018 The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
2017 A Million Ways Home by Dianna Dorisi-Winget
2016 Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
2015 Wonder by R.J. Palacio
2014 The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
2013 Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
2012 Runaway Twin by Peg Kehret
2011 Stolen Children by Peg Kehret
2010 Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
2009 The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
2008 The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2007 Abduction! by Peg Kehret
2006 The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
2005 Wenny Has Wings by Janet Lee Carey (made into a Japanese movie Ano sora wo Oboetaru)
2004 Zach's Lie by Roland Smith
2003 Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
2002 Dork In Disguise by Carol Gorman
2001 Holes by Louis Sachar
2000 Saving Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
1999 Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
1998 Titanic Crossing by Barbara Williams
1997 Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn
1996 Ghosts of Mercy Manor by Betty Ren Wright
1995 The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood
1994 Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
1993 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1992 The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
1991 All About Sam by Lois Lowry
1990 There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
1989 Sixth-Grade Sleepover by Eve Bunting
1988 Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts
1987 The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
1986 The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
1985 A Bundle of Sticks by Pat Rhoads Mauser
1984 The Secret Life of the Underwear Champ by Betty Miles
1983 The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
1982 The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot by Marian Place
1981 Soup for President by Robert Newton Peck
1980 Pinballs by Betsy Byars
1979 Champion of Merrimack County by Roger W. Drury
1978 Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
1977 The Ghost of Saturday Night by Sid Fleischman
1976 The Home Run Trick by Scott Corbett
1975 How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
1974 It's a Mile from Here to Glory by Robert C. Lee
1973 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
1972 Sounder by William H. Armstrong




See also



1971–1972 Mark Twain Awards nominees
1972–1973 Mark Twain Awards nominees




References






External links


Mark Twain Award winners 1972– booklist at WorldCat
The MASL Readers Awards – point of entry to all four Missouri School Librarians reader choice book awards

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