National Book Award Young People's Literature Winners — Complete List (1969–1979)

• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

  1979NBAYoung People's

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  The View From the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures by Judith KohlandHerbert Kohl

  1978NBAYoung People's

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  The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson

  1977NBAYoung People's

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  Bert Breen's Barn by Walter D. Edmonds

  1976NBAYoung People's

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  M. C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton

  1975NBAYoung People's

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  The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron

  1974NBAYoung People's

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  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1973NBAYoung People's

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• The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn by Donald Barthelme

  1972NBAYoung People's

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  The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander

  1971NBAYoung People's

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  A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw by Isaac Bashevis Singer

  1970NBAYoung People's

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• Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert DeJong

  1969NBAYoung People's

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