Annal:1987 Golden Kite Fiction Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1987. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1987 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 1987 Horn Book-fiction winner
- Score: 20.37
Many things change for twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey, her mother, and her best friend, Veronica Bigelow, when Veronica’s mother becomes mentally incapacitated and the Starkeys move in with the Bigelows.
- 1987 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 6.37
The Great Dimpole Oak is a massive tree hundreds of years old. Generations have carved their names in its trunk, and dug for buried treasure at its base. When a town matron decides to celebrate Dimpole Oak Day, events and lives are set in motion—including those of two boys, two young lovers, the old farmer whose land the tree is on, and a swami from India!


