Category Archives: other award winners
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Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Posted on March 25, 2013 by Jennifer in Newbery, Nonfiction, other award winnersCold war nonfiction is not my favorite reading topic, but this book won a number of children’s and young adult book awards this winter, including best nonfiction (Sibert Award) and a Newbery honor for best children’s book (fiction or nonfiction). My husband and I had visited Los Alamos on a trip to New Mexico a [...]
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Moonbird: a Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
Posted on October 15, 2012 by Jessica in animals, Nonfiction, other award winnersRufa red knots are small shorebirds that make an incredible journey every year. Knots only weigh about 4 ounces, but each year, they fly from Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America to the arctic regions of Canada and back. While it’s incredible that such a small bird can do this at [...]
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The Lily Pond
Posted on February 14, 2012 by Victoria in Historical Fiction, My Favorite, other award winners, world cultures> A Faraway Island and The Lily Pond are by Annika Thor, translated from Swedish by Linda Schenck. Thor has written four historical novels about Stephanie and Nellie Steiner, two Jewish sisters from a cultured Viennese family. The girls have been sent to a remote Swedish fishing village during World War II, while their parents attempt [...]
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Inspiration from the Refugee Experience
Posted on January 1, 2012 by Jennifer in Historical Fiction, Newspaper column, other award winners, Realistic Fiction, social issues, world cultures>Library column printed in The Mercury, Jan. 1, 2012 Several books featuring refugee children have left me in awe of the rebounding spirit of children and their amazing ability to hope, dream and find their place in the world. Though these are all fictional accounts, several authors had personal experiences that led them to write, [...]
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Zora and Me
Posted on May 19, 2011 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Mysteries, other award winners, social issuesby Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon This story will captivate you and leave you wanting to know more about the childhood adventures of writer Zora Neal Hurston and her best friend Carrie. Told from the point of view of ten-year-old Carrie, the story is set inEatonville,FL.where girls get caught up in a story they didn’t [...]
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One Crazy Summer
Posted on January 23, 2011 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Inspirational, Newbery, other award winners, social issuesby Rita Williams-Garcia Eleven year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonnetta and Fern embark on a physical and emotional journey during what turns out to be One Crazy Summer. They are sent to Oakland, California in the summer of 1968 to the care of their radical-poet mother, Cecile, who left them when Fern was just [...]
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Big Wolf & Little Wolf
Posted on January 25, 2010 by Victoria in animals, Family Read-Aloud, My Favorite, other award winners, Picture BooksBig Wolf & Little Wolf is a touching story of friendship between a big wolf and a little blue wolf who moves into the neighborhood. Big Wolf is accustomed to being the biggest wolf in the woods, and also quite set in his solitary ways. He feels threatened by the small new wolf who wants [...]
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham -1963
Posted on August 8, 2009 by Children's Department Staff in Classics, Family Read-Aloud, Historical Fiction, other award winnersby Christopher Paul Curtis Kenny’s family in Flint, Michigan is known as the Weird Watson’s for many reasons. His younger sister Joetta is overdressed in the winter because it’s believed southern folks will freeze solid. Keeny, the narrator, does well in school and wants to please his parents. The older brother Byron, is somewhat of [...]
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A Curse Dark As Gold
Posted on July 9, 2009 by Victoria in fairy tales and folklore, Kansas, My Favorite, other award winners, Young Adult/Teenby Elizabeth C. Bunce A Curse Dark As Gold is shelved in the YA fiction collection, but it’s also appropriate for older elementary students and adults. This debut novel by a Lenexa author made the 2009 Kansas Notable Books list. Kansas Notable Books are outstanding works by Kansans or about Kansas in fiction, nonfiction, adult [...]
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The Way a Door Closes/Keeping the Night Watch
Posted on June 3, 2009 by Victoria in other award winners, Poetry, social issuesThe Way a Door Closes and Keeping the Night Watch are companion works of poetry by Hope Anita Smith. In The Way a Door Closes, C.J.’s Dad abandons his family when he loses his job. His mother and grandmother work to hold the family together, and C.J. tries to fill his father’s shoes with [...]
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