Annal:1978 Golden Kite Fiction Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1978. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine
- 1978 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- Score: 10.28
Andrea resents her parents' preoccupation with the disturbing antics of her sixteen-year-old sister Elaine. Practice on her balance beam and participation in the school play takes her mind off life's problems. Then, when tragedy strikes, Andrea discovers she can be someone special.
- 1978 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 6.28
Inge Dorenwald and Lieselotte Vessely have been best friends for most of their thirteen years. They share secrets, fears, hopes and even the same birthday. It never mattered that Inge was Jewish and that Lieselotte was the daughter of a Nazi SS officer - until now. Hitler and Nazism are infiltrating Vienna, Austria, in 1938 and suddenly it is forbidden for the girls to continue seeing each other. Despite the danger, Inge and Liselotte struggle to keep their friendship alive. But will they be able to do it?
A new afterword by the author, who based the story on her own experiences during World War II, is included. According to Publishers Weekly, The Devil in Vienna “arouses in its readers anguish, fury, admiration, scornit couldn’t be a more effective story or a more powerful illustration of the reason ‘never to forget.’”
