Annal:1998 Golden Kite Fiction Award
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1998. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1998 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 1998 LATimes–Young Adult winner
- 2001 YRCA-Senior nominee
- Score: 24.48
Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone’s Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5’11’’ at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd—for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn’t stop Madeline Gladstone, the president of Gladstone’s Shoes 176 outlets in 37 states, from hiring Jenna to drive her cross country in a last ditch effort to stop Elden Gladstone from taking over his mother’s company and turning a quality business into a shop-and-schlock empire. Now Jenna Boller shoe salesperson is about to become a shoe-store spy…
- 1998 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- 2001 YRCA-Senior nominee
- Score: 10.48
Brent Bishop longs to have the popular Brianna strolling around school on his arm. But when she rejects him at a classmate’s party, Brent’s hopes for popularity are instantly shattered. Devastated, he tries to destroy himself in a car crash…but instead kills an innocent girl named Lea.
Instead of sending him to jail, Lea’s parents challenge Brent to create four whirligigs modeled on a picture of Lea and position them at the four corners of the United States. Lea’s mother hopes that the whirligig that used to delight Lea will be a fitting memorial for her…
