1971–1972 Mark Twain Awards Explained

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

Winner

- - 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