Annal:1997 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1997. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors.
- 1997 Batchelder winner
- 1997 Horn Book-fiction winner
- Score: 20.47
Curious about death, three sixth-grade boys decide to spy on an old man waiting for him to die, but they end up becoming his friends.
- 1998 Newbery honor
- 1997 Horn Book-fiction honor
- Score: 12.48
This year, as in other years, Lily has planned a spectacular summer in Rockaway, in her family’s cozy house on stilts over the Atlantic Ocean. But by the summer of 1944, World War II has changed almost everyone’s life. Lily’s best friend, Margaret, and her family have moved to a wartime factory town, and worse, much worse, Lily’s father is on his way overseas to the war.
There’s no one else Lily’s age in Rockaway until Albert comes, a refugee from Hungary, a boy with a secret sewn into his coat. Albert has lost most of his family in the war; he’s been through…
Harlem: A Poem
Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers
- 1998 Caldecott honor
- 1997 Horn Book-fiction honor
- Score: 12.48
Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and James Baldwin have sung their songs about Harlem. Now Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers joins their chorus in calling to life the deep, rich and hope-filled history of this community. Christopher Myers’ boldly assembled art resonates with feeling and tells a tale all its own. The words and pictures together connect readers of all ages to the spirit of Harlem in its music, art, literature, and everyday life.
