National Book Award — Young People's Literature Home › National Book Award › Young People's Literature The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson 1979NBAYoung People's The View From the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures by Judith KohlandHerbert Kohl 1978NBAYoung People's The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson 1977NBAYoung People's Bert Breen's Barn by Walter D. Edmonds 1976NBAYoung People's M. C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton 1975NBAYoung People's The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron 1974NBAYoung People's The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin 1973NBAYoung People's The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn by Donald Barthelme 1972NBAYoung People's The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander 1971NBAYoung People's A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw by Isaac Bashevis Singer 1970NBAYoung People's Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert DeJong 1969NBAYoung People's