Book Awards
The National Book Foundation announced their shortlists for the 2013 National Book Awards on Wednesday, October 16th. Here's how the Horn Book reviewed their selections in the Young People's Literature category.The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt; illus. by Jennifer BrickingIntermediate, Middle School Atheneum 374 pp.7/13 ...
The 2013 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Louise Erdrich for Chickadee, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The annual award, created by Scott O’Dell and Zena Sutherland in 1982 and now administered by Elizabeth Hall, carries with it a prize of $5000, and goes to...
Goblin Secretsby William AlexanderIntermediate McElderry 226 pp.3/12 978-1-4424-2726-6 $16.99reviewed in the fall 2012 Horn Book GuideTheater is outlawed for the humans of Zombay. But when orphan Rownie flees witch Graba's custody, he joins a performance troupe of goblins he hopes can help locate his brother (who disappeared after illegally acting);...
photo by Lolly RobinsonReigning (wait, is it incoming until he actually gets his mitts on the goods?) O'Dell and Newbery Medalist Jack Gantos stopped by the office last Friday for a bit of cake and champagne to celebrate the success of Dead End in Norvelt. (And to fortify himself for his...
I mean, beyond all the Judith Krantz I've been quoting from memory over on Twitter. Wendy at Six Boxes of Books interviews me about the Scott O'Dell Award....
The 2012 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt, published by Farrar Straus Giroux. The award, created by Scott O'Dell and Zena Sutherland in 1982 and now administered by Elizabeth Hall, carries with it a prize of $5000, and goes to the...
2011 National Book Award WinnerInside Out and Back Again has won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The prize was presented on November 16, 2011, at the National Book Foundation's annual dinner and ceremony in New York City. Marc Aronson chaired the judging committee, which also included...
[scroll down for all six reviews]Chimeby Franny BillingsleyMiddle School, High School Dial 358 pp.3/11 978-0-8037-3552-1 $17.99Reviewed 3/11“Ooze and muck and the clean muddy smell of life” suffuse Billingsley’s long-awaited third work of fiction, which mingles “Tam Lin,” “Lord Randall,” and its own swampy folklore into an...
The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction committee is soliciting nominations for the 2012 Award, a $5000 prize. To quote from the criteria, "a book must have been published as a book intended for children or young people; it must be set in the New World (Canada, Central or South...
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