Annal:1980 Golden Kite Fiction Award

Arthur, For the Very First Time

Patricia MacLachlan

• 1980 Golden Kite-fiction winner
• Score: 10.3

Arthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Great-Uncle Wrisby on their farm, his world is turned upside down.

The Half-a-Moon Inn

Paul Fleischman

• 1980 Golden Kite-fiction honor
• Score: 6.3

A twelve-year-old mute boy sets off to find his mother in a blizzard, and becomes the captive of an evil woman in the Half-a-Moon Inn. ‘