The Mark Twain Readers Award is given annually to a book for children in grades four through six.

Winner Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien

Nominations The King's Fountain by Lloyd Alexander Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt Feldman Fieldmouse by Nathaniel Benchley Joseph, The Dreamer by Clyde Robert Bulla A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron The Spider, The Cave and the Pottery Bowl by Eleanor Clymer Jingo Django by Sid Fleischman All Upon a Stone by Jean Craighead George The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton The Trees Stand Shining by Hettie Jones The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin Kate by Jean Little Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles The Vicksburg Veteran by F. N. Monjo Deep Trouble by Walt Morey The Almost Year by Florence Randall The Bear's House by Marilyn Sachs The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder By the Highway Home by Mary Stolz Chipmunks on the Doorstep by Edwin Tunis

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