Annal:1990 Golden Kite Fiction Award
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- 1991 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 1990 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 1991 Newbery honor
- Score: 26.41
The Seahawk looms against a darkening sky, black and sinister. Manned by an angry, motley crew at the mercy of a ruthless captain, the rat-infested ship reeks of squalor, despair … and mutiny! It is no place for the lone passenger, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, yet for her there is no turning back. At first a trapped and powerless young girl, Charlotte dares to become the center of a daring and deadly voyage that will challenge her courage, her loyalties, and her very will to survive!Alone on the brig Seahawk with a mutinous crew and a ruthless, mad captain,…
- 1990 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 6.4
Afraid that his beloved grandfather will die after suffering a heart attack, a nine-year-old boy agrees to join ten-year-old Dooley in performing a mysterious ritual called soul switching.
