Annal:2001 Golden Kite Fiction Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2001 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 2001 NBA–Youth winner
- 2002 Printz honor
- 2004 YRCA-Senior nominee
- Score: 30.51
When LaVaughn was little, the obstacles in her life didn’t seem so bad. But LaVaughn is fifteen and the obstacles aren’t going away anymore. Big questions separate her from her friends. Her mother is distracted by a new man. School could slip away from her so easily. And the boy who’s a miracle in her life acts just as if he’s in love with her. Only he’s not in love with her.
Returning to the characters and language she explored so profoundly in Make Lemonade, Virginia Euwer Wolff rises to the occasion in this astonishing second of three novels about LaVaughn, her family, and her community.
- 2001 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 6.51
For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physically and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam.
