Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award (1984 - present ) is an annual award presented for outstanding historical fiction books written in English by a citizen of the U.S., published by a U.S. publisher, set in the New World, and written for children or young adults. For more information visit the award site here.

• 2005: Worth by A LaFaye
  
  
• 2004: A River Between Us by Richard Peck
  
  
• 2003: Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
  
  
• 2002: The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
  
  
• 2001: The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle
  
  
• 2000: Two Suns in the Sky by Miriam Bat-Ami
  
  
• 1999: Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet
  
  
• 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
  
  
• 1997: Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson
  
  
• 1996: The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
  
  
• 1995: Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
  
  
• 1994: Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
  
  
• 1993: Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
  
  
• 1992: Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
  
  
• 1991: A Time of Troubles by Pieter Van Raven
  
  
• 1990: Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
  
  
• 1989: The Honorable Prison by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
  
  
• 1988: Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty
  
  
• 1987: Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea by Scott O'Dell
  
  
• 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
  
  
• 1985: The Fighting Ground by Avi
  
  
• 1984: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare