Annal:1999 Golden Kite Fiction Award
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 1999. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Speak: A Novel
- 1999 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 2000 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- 2000 Printz honor
- 1999 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- 1999 NBA–Youth finalist
- Score: 34.49
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn’t even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that’s not safe. Because there’s something she’s trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country.
- 2002 YRCA-Junior winner
- 2000 CS King-Author winner
- 2000 Newbery winner
- 1999 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 36.52
It’s 1936 Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy, but Bud’s got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase full of special things; 2. He’s the author of "Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself"; 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his band of renown, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression. Bud is sure those posters will lead him to his father.
