Annal:1985 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1985. 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.
- 1985 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 1985 Newbery honor
- Score: 16.35
First time I saw Bix was at a baseball game. He was a shortstop, supreme. I didn’t want to start liking this flashy cracker with a momma in a high-style black dress. But Bix got me, baby. Next thing I knew, there I was, Jerome Foxworthy, doing hoops privately in the woods and getting my moves down, when Bix showed up. I taught him all I knew—even though he wanted to play everything straight, not fake it. Because he had one game coming up where he’d need all the moves to put his life together again…
—The Jayfox
