Annal:1985 Golden Kite Fiction Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1985. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1986 Newbery winner
- 1986 Scott O'Dell winner
- 1985 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- Score: 30.36
“Did Mama sing every day?” Caleb asks his sister Anna. “Every-single-day,” she answers. “Papa sang, too.”
Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn’t sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa: I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, and Tell them I sing. Anna and…
- 1985 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 6.35
Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
