1972–1973 Mark Twain Awards

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

Winner

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien

Nominations

• The King's Fountain by Lloyd Alexander
• Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt
• Feldman Fieldmouse by Nathaniel Benchley
• Joseph, The Dreamer by Clyde Robert Bulla
• A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron
• The Spider, The Cave and the Pottery Bowl by Eleanor Clymer
• Jingo Django by Sid Fleischman
• All Upon a Stone by Jean Craighead George
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
• The Trees Stand Shining by Hettie Jones
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Kate by Jean Little
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
• The Vicksburg Veteran by F. N. Monjo
• Deep Trouble by Walt Morey
• The Almost Year by Florence Randall
• The Bear's House by Marilyn Sachs
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
• By the Highway Home by Mary Stolz
• Chipmunks on the Doorstep by Edwin Tunis