Annal:1977 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1977. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors.
- 1977 Horn Book-fiction winner
- Score: 10.27
“I can’t remember when Barney’s story began but all my life I’d heard this story about how a little girl and her father were going to hit it big one of these days….I knew more about race horses than I knew about myself—I mean myself as a Chinese.”
Race horses aren’t any help when Barney lands in the hospital and Casey is sent to live with Paw-Paw—her maternal grandmother-in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She’s not prepared for the Chinese school, the crowds, the noise, the small room she has to share with Paw-Paw—and she’s not prepared for missing Barney.
But…
