1971–1972 Mark Twain Awards
# 1971–1972 Mark Twain Awards

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

## Winner

Sounder by William Armstrong

## Nominations

* Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt
* Before You Came This Way by Byrd Baylor
* Mystery of Stonehenge by Franklyn M. Branley
* Come Along by Rebecca Caudill
* Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver & William Cleaver
* Weathermonger by Peter Dickinson
* Year of Columbus 1492 by Genevieve Foster
* King's Falcon by Paula Fox
* Portrait of Ivan by Paula Fox
* Cavalcade of Goblins by Alan Garner
* Knights and Armor by Shirley Glubok
* Our Eddie by Sulsmith Ish-kishor
* About the B'Nai Bagels by E. L. Konigsburg
* America's Endangered Wildlife by George Laycock
* One to Grow On by Jean Little
* Odd Destiny by Milton Lomask
* A Book of Ghosts and Goblins by Ruth Manning-Sanders
* Goodbye, Dove Square by Janet McNeill
* Tucker's Countryside by George Selden
* Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
* Trouble in the Jungle by John Rowe Townsend
* Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
