Sequoyah Book Award
The Sequoyah Book Award is a set of three annual awards for books selected by vote of Oklahoma students in elementary, middle, and high schools. The award program is named after Sequoyah (c. 1770–1843), the Cherokee man who developed the Cherokee syllabary—a writing system adopted by Cherokee Nation in 1825. The awards are sponsored by the Oklahoma Library Association[1][2] and administered by a committee of OLA members. Every year, three teams representing each award read and select books to be included on the master lists, which are then provided to Oklahoma schools for students to read and vote on. The winners are announced early spring of each year, and the winning authors are invited to the Association's annual conference to receive their awards and meet with students. The Sequoyah Children's Book Award, now voted by children in grades 3 to 5, was inaugurated in 1959.[1] It is the third oldest U.S. state children's choice award[1] after the original Kansas award and Vermont award. The Sequoyah Intermediate Book Award is voted by grades 6 to 8. It dates from 1988 where it was originally named the Young Adult award. Finally in 2010, the Sequoyah High School Book Award (grades 9–12) was added to the program.[1] The Sequoyah Committee also selects the Donna Norvell Award for easy reader books, Pre-K-2nd grades; however, this award is chosen by the committee members and not by the students themselves.
 Sequoyah Book Award Logo | |
| Formation | 1959 |
|---|---|
| Website | Sequoyah Book Awards |
Children's 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 Powell 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 |
| 2007 | The World According to Humphrey | Betty Birney |
| 2008 | Angus and Sadie | Cynthia Voigt |
| 2009 | Clementine | Sara Pennypacker |
| 2010 | Lawn Boy | Gary Paulsen |
| 2011 | All the Lovely Bad Ones | Mary Downing Hahn |
| 2012 | Dragonbreath | Ursula Vernon |
| 2013 | The Strange Case of Origami Yoda | Tom Angleberger |
| 2014 | Sidekicks | Dan Santat |
| 2015 | The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate |
| 2016 | Chews Your Destiny: The Gumazing Gum Girl! | Rhode Montijo |
| 2017 | The Doll Graveyard | Lois Ruby |
| 2018 | Roller Girl | Victoria Jamieson |
Young Adult and Intermediate 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 |
| 2007 | Red Kayak | Priscilla Cummings |
| 2008 | The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan |
| 2009 | Runaway | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| 2010 | Unwind | Neal Shusterman |
| 2011 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins |
| 2012 | Positively | Courtney Sheinmel |
| 2013 | After Ever After | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| 2014 | Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 | Richard Paul Evans |
| 2015 | The False Prince | Jennifer A. Nielsen |
| 2016 | Goodbye, Rebel Blue | Shelley Coriell |
| 2017 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander |
| 2018 | The War that Saved My Life | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
High School winners
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher |
| 2011 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins |
| 2012 | Hate List | Jennifer Brown |
| 2013 | Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare |
| 2014 | Divergent | Veronica Roth |
| 2015 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
| 2016 | The 5th Wave | Rick Yancey |
| 2017 | Wolf by Wolf | Ryan Graudin |
| 2018 | The Female of the Species | Mindy McGinnis |
Donna Norvell Award winners
The Norvell Award "honors a book making a significant contribution to the field of literature for children through third grade ... written and illustrated to present, organize, and interpret material for children." The writer and illustrator must be US residents, the book published two years before the award year (2012 publications in 2014). Librarians on the Sequoyah Committee select the winner.[2]
| Year | Title | Writer | Illustrator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Wild About Books | Judy Sierra | Marc Brown |
| 2007 | Leaf Man | Lois Ehlert | Ehlert |
| 2008 | Not a Box | Antoinette Portis | Portis |
| 2009 | Fred Stays with Me! | Nancy Coffelt | Tricia Tusa  |
| 2010 | Maybe a Bear Ate It! | Robie Harris | Michael Emberley |
| 2011 | Chicken Dance | Tammi Sauer | Dan Santat |
| 2012 | Interrupting Chicken | David Ezra Stein | Stein |
| 2013 | Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes (sequel to Pete the Cat) | Eric Litwin | James Dean |
| 2017 | Red, a Crayon's Story | Michael Hall | |
| 2018 | The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors | Drew Daywalt and Adam Rex |
References
- "Sequoyah Book Awards" Archived 2012-08-30 at the Wayback Machine (homepage). Oklahoma Library Association (OLA). Retrieved 2014-05-05.
- "The Donna Norvell Oklahoma Book Award" Archived 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine. OLA. Retrieved 2014-05-05.