Annal:2005 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors.
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
- 2005 Horn Book-nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.55
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell’s Arthur A. “Doc” Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great…
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
- 2005 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
- Score: 6.55
On April 14, 1865, five days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth fired a single shot and changed the course of American history. His infamous deed cost him his life and brought notoriety and shame to his family-particularly his elder brother, the renowned actor Edwin Booth. From that day forward, Edwin would be known as “the brother of the man who killed President Lincoln.”
In many ways, the Booth brothers were two of a kind. They were among America’s finest actors, having inherited from their father, Junius Brutus Booth, a commanding stage…
- 2005 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
- 2004 Greenaway Medal honor
- Score: 12.55
Who is sad? Sad is anyone. It comes along and finds you.
We all have sad stuff. What makes Michael Rosen sad is thinking about his son, Eddie, who died. In this book he writes about his sadness, how it affects him, and some of the things he does to try to cope with it.
