Annal:2004 Batchelder Award
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Results of the Batchelder Award in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2004 Batchelder winner
- Score: 10.54
Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy's survival of the Holocaust. Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto.
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins
- 2004 Batchelder honor
- 2004 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
- Score: 12.54
Do you know the story of Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut who went all the way to the moon but never walked on its surface? Instead, he orbited the moon 14 times, surrounded by 701 power switches and 20 pounds of checklists. Reminiscent of a scrapbook, this extraordinary book chronicles what Michael Collins did, saw, and thought about in space. Through fascinating facts, quotes, checklists, original drawings, and photos taken both in space and on Earth, it also tells how the astronauts prepared for their historic journey, what they brought with them, and what they left behind.
