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

Sounder by William Armstrong

• 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