Annal:1994 Golden Kite Fiction Award

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Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:


Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman

Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man—any rich man, no matter how awful.

But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call—by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.

Unfortunately, he is also the richest.

Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a…

 

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

Nancy Farmer

The year is 2194, and Tendai, his brother, and his sister—the children of Zimbabwei’s chief of security—have escaped from their father’s estate to explore the dangerous city of Harare.

 
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