Award-Winning Books with Gentle Content
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Literary award winners rated Gentle or Mild — quality literature safe for sensitive readers.
387 books
Confessions of a Closet Catholic
Sarah Darer Littman
Day of the assassins
Johnny O'Brien
Don't make me laugh
Leonard S. Marcus
Dragonwings
Laurence Yep
Dream Factory
Brad Barkley
Ernest Hemingway
Catherine Reef
Evie Brooks is marooned in Manhattan
Sheila Agnew
Frizzy
Claribel A. Ortega
Funny girl
Betsy Bird
Getting somewhere
Jenny Pausacker
Gone to drift
Diana McCaulay
Goth Girl and the ghost of a mouse
Chris Riddell
Guitar highway Rose
Brigid Lowry
Louisiana's way home
Kate DiCamillo
Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess
Shari Green
Melonhead
Katy Kelly
Midnight at the Electric
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Mogo, the Third Warthog
Donna Jo Napoli
Moon-flash
Patricia A. McKillip
One-Handed Catch
M. J. Auch
Parkland
Victor Kelleher
Pigs might fly
Nick Abadzis
Shadow of the minotaur
Alan Gibbons
Shelby Holmes
Elizabeth Eulberg
Solomon Snow and the Stolen Jewel
Kaye Umansky
Something Rotten
Alan Gratz
Squirm
Carl Hiaasen
Stony heart country
David Metzenthen
Swindle
Gordon Korman
Teen, Inc.
Stefan Petrucha
The Bronze Pen
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Callender papers
Cynthia Voigt
The Humming of Numbers
Joni Sensel
The Magic Half
Annie Barrows
The Perfect Hamburger and Other Delicious Stories
Alexander McCall Smith
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
Eric Berlin
The Silver Donkey
Sonya Hartnett
The Unmaking of Duncan Veerick
Betty Levin
The animal book
Steve Jenkins
The girl from the sea
James Aldridge
The lark on the wing
Elfrida Vipont
The moorchild
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The problim children
Natalie Lloyd
The slightly true story of Cedar B. Hartley, who planned to live an unusual life
Martine Murray
The tale of Angelino Brown
David Almond
The wand in the word
Leonard S. Marcus
Up close
James Sutherland
Vanishing act
John Feinstein
Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
What I Call Life
Jill Wolfson
John Muir
Kathryn Lasky
The little grey men
"BB
A dog for life
L. S. Matthews
Magic Raincoat
Ryan David
The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg
W. R. Philbrick
The Dumpster Diver
Janet S. Wong
The Unvisibles
Ian Whybrow
Wild dogs
Kelly Milner Halls
A Drowned Maiden's Hair
Laura Amy Schlitz
Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back! (Adam Canfield of the Slash)
Michael Winerip
Boy Lost in the Maze
Joseph Coelho
Bulu, African wonder dog
Dick Houston
Change-up
John Feinstein
Clearing Weather
Cornelia Meigs
Fire dancer
Victor Kelleher
First light
Rebecca Stead
I Am The Messenger
Markus Zusak
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Wendy Mass
Jumping-Off Place
Marian Hurd McNeely
Larklight
Philip Reeve
Mare's war
Tanita S. Davis
Moon over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool
Sacrifice
Cindy Pon
Spice and the Devil's Cave
Agnes Danforth Hewes
The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley
The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow
Kaye Umansky
The gallery of unfinished girls
Lauren Karcz
The hidden treasure of Glaston
Eleanore Myers Jewett
The last of the high kings
Kate Thompson
Wild Cats
John Becker
Dinosaur mummies
Kelly Milner Halls
Geektastic
Holly Black
The murder of Bindy MacKenzie
Jaclyn Moriarty
This full house
Anthony Euwer
Travel team
Mike Lupica
The little people of Flores Island
Linda Goldenberg Atkinson