Annal:2000 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors.
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
- 2001 Sibert winner
- 2000 Horn Book-nonfiction winner
- Score: 20.51
Sir Walter Ralegh played the starring role in a life that was a series of romantic, almost-too-spectacular-to-be-true adventures. From the dazzling court of Queen Elizabeth to the dense jungles of South America, from daring sea raids to the epic struggle against the Spanish Armada, from his luminous historical writings to his intimate poetry, Ralegh left his mark on the age. His life was as dramatic and complex as a Shakespearean play.
Ralegh was a man of great contradictions: He participated in the massacre of Catholics in Ireland, yet later supported…
Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter
- 2000 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
- Score: 6.5
A sharecropper’s daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.
- 2000 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
- Score: 6.5
Richly researched, told with sweep, speed, and balance, here is a biography of the man who was arguably the Plains Indians’ most revered, most visionary leader. Tatan’ka Iyota’ke—Sitting Bull—was the great Hunkpapa Lakota chief who helped defeat Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. But more than that, he was a profound holy man and seer, an astute judge of men, a singer and speaker for his people’s ways. In the face of the army, the railroad, the discovery of gold, and the decimation of the buffalo, he led his band to Canada rather than “come in” to…
