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Soaring Eagle Book Award 1989-1999

The Soaring Eagle Book Award provides the opportunity for Wyoming youth in grades 7-12 to select a favorite book and honor its author. Its purpose is to help Wyoming students in grades 7-12:

  • Become acquainted with the best contemporary authors.
  • Become aware of the qualities that make a good book.
  • Choose the best rather than the mediocre.
  • Set a goal to read at least three good books.
  • To honor an author whose books Wyoming students have enjoyed.
The Soaring Eagle Book Award is sponsored by the Wyoming Library Association and the Wyoming State Literacy Association. 
Winners & Nominees
1989-1999
Winners & Nominees
2000-2009
Winners & Nominees
2010-2019
Winners & Nominees
2020-2024

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Winners & Nominees (1989-1999)

1999

Winner
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
by Jack Canfield

First runner-up
Angels Watching Over Me
by Lurlene McDaniel

  Second runner-up
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse


1998


Winner
Freak the Mighty
by Rodman Philbrick

First runner-up
The Doom Stone
by Paul Zindel

Second runner-up
Brian's Winter
by Gary Paulsen


1997


Winner
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen

First runner-up
Lost World
by Michael Crichton

Second runner-up
Wait Till Helen Comes
by Mary Downing Hahn


1996


Winner
Whispers from the Dead
by Joan Lowery Nixon

First runner-up
The Giver
by Lois Lowry

Second runner-up
It Happened to Nancy
by Anonymous


1995


Winner
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

First runner-up
The Client
by John Grisham

Second runner-up
Baby Alicia is Dying
by Lurlene McDaniel


1994


Winner
Desperate Pursuit
by Gloria Miklowitz

First runner-up
Locked in Time
by Lois Duncan
 
Second runner-up
Phone Calls
by R. L. Stine


1993

 
Winner
Hugh Glass, Mountain Man
by Robert McClung
 
First runner-up
Fudge-a-Mania
by Judy Blume

Second runner-up (tie)
Missing Since Monday
by Ann M. Martin 
 
Second runner-up (tie)
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry

1992


Winner
Dances with Wolves
by Michael Blake

First runner-up
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen

  Second runner-up
?
by Joan Lowery Nixon


1991 (Grades 10-12)


Winner
Princess Ashley
by Richard Peck

First runner-up
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card

Second runner-up
On a Pale Horse
by Piers Anthony

1991 (Grades 7-9)


Winner
Trapped in Death Cave
by Bill Wallace

First runner-up
Chain Letter
by Christopher Pike

Second runner-up
The Castle in the Attic
by Elizabeth Winthrop

1990 (Grades 10-12)

 
Winner
Of Love and Shadows
by Isabel Allende
 
First runner-up
Watchers
by Dean Koontz
 
Second runner-up (tie)
The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean Auel

Second runner-up (tie)
Pet Sematary
by Stephen King

1990 (Grades 7-9)

 
Winner
Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island
by Eve Bunting
 
First runner-up
Tiger Eyes
by Judy Blume
 
Second runner-up (tie)
When the Phone Rang
by Harry Mazer
 
Second runner-up (tie)
Red Dog
by Bill Wallace

1989 (Grades 7-9)

 
Winner
Superfudge
by Judy Blume

First runner-up
Ghost of Departure Point
by Eve Bunting
 
Second runner-up
Soun Tetoken
by Kenneth Thomasma

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