Annal:2003 Golden Kite Fiction Award

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Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:


Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind.

 

Breath

Donna Jo Napoli

In this re-imagining of the Pied Piper tale, a boy afflicted with cystic fibrosis in the Middle Ages is an outcast. When the townsfolk of Hameln are affected by a grain mold, he survives an outbreak of madness, followed by a plague of rats.

 
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