Annal:2004 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors.
- 2004 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2003 Whitbread-Children's winner
- 2003 Carnegie shortlist
- 2003 Guardian Award shortlist
- Score: 32.54
Bobby Burns knows he’s a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars reflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawns with her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness seems to be approaching Bobby’s life from all sides...
- 2004 Horn Book-fiction honor
- Score: 6.54
He got into nails, of course,
because He’d always loved
hands—
hands were some of the best things
He’d ever done.
In God Went to Beauty School Cynthia Rylant imagines a God whose curiosities about the world He created inspire Him to go out and experience human things. But what would God do if He could live in a human world? Would He write a fan letter? Get a dog? Make spaghetti?
God Went to Beauty School celebrates the simple things in life while taking a long, hard look at what it means to be…
The Amulet of Samarkand: Book 1 of the Bartimaeus Trilogy
- 2004 Horn Book-fiction honor
- Score: 6.54
Nathaniel is a young magician with only one thing on his mind: revenge.
As an apprentice to the great magician Underwood, Nathaniel is gradually being schooled in the traditional art of magic. All is well until he has a life-changing encounter with Simon Lovelace, a rising, star magician. When Simon brutally humiliates Nathaniel in front of everyone he knows, Nathaniel decides to speed up his magical education, teaching himself spells way beyond his years. Eventually, he masters one of the most difficult spells of all: summoning the all-powerful djinni,…
