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