The Josette Frank Award, 1943-2024
Resources for a selection of the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1943 -- honoring a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally.
Sponsored by Bank Street College of Education Center for Children's Literature
![The Josette Frank Award, 1943-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/111.jpg)
- 1,059 Resources including
- 100 Videos
- 65 Book Readings
- 143 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
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![Firekeeper's Daughter](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/73080_hi.jpg)
![When Stars Are Scattered](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0525553908.jpg)
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, and Iman Geddy
(Winner, 2021)
56 Resources20 Awards
![Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0385321759.jpg)
![Because of Winn-Dixie](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0763644323.jpg)
![Milo Imagines the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0399549080.jpg)
Milo Imagines the World
by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
(Younger Readers Winner, 2022)
41 Resources10 Awards
![I Must Betray You](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/198483603X.jpg)
![Out of My Mind](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/141697170X.jpg)
![Piecing Me Together](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1681191059.jpg)
![Rose Under Fire](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/038567953X.jpg)
![War That Saved My Life, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0803740816.jpg)
![Rain Reign](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0312643004.jpg)
![After Tupac and D Foster](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0399246541.jpg)
![Clementine](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0786838825.jpg)
![I'll Give You the Sun](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0803734964.jpg)
![Goose Girl, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0747598002.jpg)
![Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0805088415.jpg)
![Home of the Brave](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0312367651.jpg)
![Heart in a Body in the World, A](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1481415204.jpg)
![Rabble Starkey](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0395436079.jpg)
![Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0397321686.jpg)
Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story
by Beverley Naidoo and Eric Velasquez
(Winner, 1987)
17 Resources2 Awards
![Labors of Hercules Beal, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0358659639.jpg)
![Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0060294604.jpg)
![Ida B: And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0060730242.jpg)
Ida B: And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
(Winner, 2005)
16 Resources2 Awards
![Each Little Bird That Sings](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0152051139.jpg)
![When the Ground Is Hard](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0525515577.jpg)
![My Louisiana Sky](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0805052518.jpg)
![Contender, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0060239204.jpg)
![Homesick: My Own Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0399209336.jpg)
![Make Lemonade](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/059048141X.jpg)
![One-Eyed Cat](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0027355403.jpg)
![House of Sixty Fathers, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0060214813.jpg)
The House of Sixty Fathers
by Meindert De Jong and Maurice Sendak
(Winner, 1956)
10 Resources2 Awards
![Secret Life of Lincoln Jones, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1101940417.jpg)
![Most Beautiful Place in the World, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0394804244.jpg)
The Most Beautiful Place in the World
by Ann Cameron and Thomas Burt Allen
(Winner, 1988)
9 Resources3 Awards
![No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0060275057.jpg)
![Sign of the Beaver, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1432860569.jpg)
![Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0375822607.jpg)
Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers
(Winner, 1985)
7 Resources3 Awards
![Blue Skin of the Sea](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0440219051.jpg)
![December Stillness](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0380707640.jpg)
![Goddess of Yesterday](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0385729456.jpg)
![Queenie Peavy](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0140323058.jpg)
![Big Wave, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0381999238.jpg)
![Taste of Blackberries, A](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/006440238X.jpg)
![Shades of Gray](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0027758109.jpg)