Book Awards
from O'Dell committee chair Deborah Stevenson:The 2018 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Beyond the Bright Sea, by Lauren Wolk, published by Dutton Books for Young readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers.The isolated world of the Elizabeth Islands off of mainland Massachusetts in 1925 comes to life...
The 2017 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Full of Beans, by Jennifer L. Holm, published by Random House Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books. Narrator Beans Curry immerses middle-grade readers in his kid world of Depression-era Key West, where he and his...
The winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature is March: Book Three by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illus. by Nate Powell.Read The Horn Book's reviews of the March trilogy here:March: Book OneMarch: Book TwoMarch: Book ThreeAnd you can read our Five Questions interview with the...
The 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to The Hired Girl, by Laura Amy Schlitz, published by Candlewick Press.When Joan’s father burns her beloved books as an undeserved punishment for shirking her housework, the put-upon fourteen-year-old makes a reckless gambit for freedom, running away to Baltimore in search...
Teachers often ask how to keep up with the best new books. Good intentions are one thing, and real life (long days, class prep, paper grading) is another.For those with limited time, I recommend going online near the end of the year when children's book review journals post their "best...
The 2015 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Dash, by Kirby Larson, published by Scholastic Press.While Mitsi is going to miss spending time with her beloved dog Dash now that Christmas vacation is over, she is looking forward to seeing her best buds Mags and Judy. Mitsy thought...
Brown Girl Dreamingby Jacqueline WoodsonIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin328 pp. 8/14 978-0-399-25251-8 $16.99 gHere is a memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the author’s childhood right along with her. It starts out somewhat slowly, with Woodson relying on others’ memories to relate her (1963) birth and infancy...
http://www.carolinefontenot.com/idioms-episode-xi/ In hunting down a quote in the June 1972 issue of the Magazine, I happened upon a note that resonates with the recent debate over the ALA awards and confidentiality. Under "Staff Notes," in the Hunt Breakfast (yesteryear's Impromptu column) the first entry is: "Paul Heins...
The 2014 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Kirkpatrick Hill for Bo at Ballard Creek, illustrated by LeUyen Pham; published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, a division of the Macmillan Children's Book Group.Like Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Bo at Ballard Creek...
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