Annal:1995 Golden Kite Fiction Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963
- 1995 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 1996 Newbery honor
- Score: 16.45
A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny’s 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma’s church is blown up.
Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life
- 1995 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 6.45
Growing up in the late 1950s, young Lee faced the painful events of his parents' divorce, an unstable homelife, and a hand-to-mouth existence. Through it all, he clung to the memory of his grandmother and his hope of becoming a writer. Now in these emotionally charged autobiographical poems, Lee speaks to today's youth.
