Annal:2005 Batchelder Award
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Results of the Batchelder Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2005 Batchelder winner
- Score: 10.55
In the Libyan city of Ghadames, Malika watches her merchant father depart on one of his caravan expeditions. She too yearns to travel to distant cities, and longs to learn to read like her younger brother. But nearly 12 years old, and soon to be of marriagable age, Malika knows that — like all Muslim women — she must be content with a more secluded, more limited life. Then one night a stranger enters her home... someone who disrupts the traditional order of things — and who affects Malika in unexpected ways.
- 2005 Batchelder honor
- Score: 6.55
Near a little cove where a brook runs out to the sea live a girl and her grandmother. All alone with no neighbors at all, the two lead a peaceful existence. They have a house, dine on sea kale and mussels and sand snails, and build fires from driftwood. But the grandmother is very old.
Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi
- 2005 Batchelder honor
- Score: 6.55
Until the spring of 1933, Daniel has enjoyed a comfortable German boyhood with his well-to-do family. Then he learns to his horror that his mother is Jewish, that he is therefore half-Jewish and, in Aryan eyes, half-human.
