Annal:1996 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry

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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

Poppy

Avi, Brian Floca

At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stood an old charred oak where, silhouetted by the moon, a great horned owl sat waiting. The owls name was Mr. Ocax, and he looked like death himself. With his piercing gaze, he surveyed the lands he called his own, watching for the creatures he considered his subjects. Not one of them ever dared to cross his path…until the terrible night when two little mice went dancing in the moonlight…

 

The Moorchild

Eloise McGraw

Feeling that she is neither fully human nor “Folk,” a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given.

 

Belle Prater's Boy

Ruth White

Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth.

Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle’s son moves next door, she has her chance. Woodrow isn’t as forthcoming as Gypsy hopes, yet he becomes more than just a curiosity to her— during their sixth-grade year she finds that they have enough in common to be best friends. Even so, Gypsy is puzzled by…

 
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