From AwardAnnals
Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1973. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene
Minutes before the train pulled into the station in Jenkinsville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen knew something exciting was going to happen. But she never could have imagined that her summer would be so memorable. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp in Jenkinsville. To the rest of her town, these prisoners are only Nazis. But to Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one boy in particular becomes an unlikely friend. Anton relates to Patty in ways that her mother and father never can. But when their forbidden relationship is discovered, will Patty risk her family and town for the understanding and love of one boy?
Red Rock Over the River
Patricia Beatty
Thirteen-year-old Dorcas becomes involved in writing letters home for the inmates at the Arizona Territorial Prison after moving with her father and brother to the remote Fort Yuma in 1881.
McBroom the Rainmaker
Sid Fleischman
When a great drought on the prairie causes cows to give powdered milk and mosquitoes to grow almost as large as small cowsheds, McBroom comes up with a novel idea for producing rain.
