Annal:2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
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Results of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
- Fantasy books
- Fantasy authors
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Children winner
- 2002 Printz honor
- 2001 Carnegie shortlist
- Score: 22.52
Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can save the Valley. And much to her amazement, Tilja gradually learns that only she, an ordinary girl with no magical powers, has the ability to protect her group and their quest from the Empire’s sorcerers.
The Wizard's Dilemma: Book 5 in the Young Wizards Series
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- Score: 6.52
Not everything can be fixed with magic—teenage angst, for example. Young wizards Kit and Nita are having such a tough time coping with adolescence that they go their separate ways. Neither wants to call it a breakup, but that’s what it seems to be. Heartsick, they throw themselves into their magical studies.
But Nita’s work is cut short by bad news: Her mother has cancer, and it looks incurable—by medical or magical means. Even wizardry is powerless against cancer.
The situation looks hopeless…until Nita enters a Faustian bargain with the Lone Power, the…
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- Score: 6.52
Somewhere in the Atlantic on a mysterious island, three eccentric women care for an assortment of astonishing creatures—not just seals, fish, and gulls, but mermaids, selkies, a couple of ghosts, a very long talking worm, and a boobrie that lays eggs so large, just one will make seventy-two omelets. But caring for so many, even the magical ones, is hard work, and Etta, Coral, and Myrtle are getting older. Perhaps if they kidnapped a few sensible children to help…
Which children the “aunts” choose and what happens to them on the island make for another wildly…
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- Score: 6.52
The Two Princesses of Bamarre couldn’t be more different. Princess Addie is fearful and shy. Her deepest wish is for safety. Princess Meryl is bold and brave. Her deepest wish is to save the kingdom of Bamarre. They are sisters, and they mean the world to each other.
Then disaster strikes, and Addie—terrified and unprepared—sets out on a perilous quest. In her path are monsters of Bamarre: ogres, specters, gryphons, and dragons. Addie must battle them, but time is running out, and the sister’s lives—and Barmarre’s fate—hang in the balance.
Gail…
