Annal:2008 Batchelder Award
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Results of the Batchelder Award in the year 2008. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- <–2007
- Batchelder Award
- –end–
- 2008 Batchelder winner
- Score: 10.58
A young boy named Wataru enters a fantasy world in hopes of saving his parent's marriage. With a determined plan to reunite his mother and father, the 10-year-old boy knowingly enters a fantasy realm inhabited by a goddess who has the power to change destiny. With the help of the Lizard Boy, the Cat Girl, and the Fire-breathing Dragon, Wataru faces a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. One way or another, the young hero must reach the Tower of Destiny and bring his mother and father back together again.
The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity
- 2008 Batchelder honor
- Score: 6.58
Every day, eight-year-old Christine's walk to school takes her past a talking alley cat. Christine stops and feels its warm head beneath her hand, and the cat's insights invariably give her something to ponder.
René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé
- 2008 Batchelder honor
- Score: 6.58
Nicholas and the Gang is the fourth book in the series about Nicholas, the cheeky French schoolboy and his friends. In this collection of adventures, Nicholas is invited to the birthday party of the girl next door, plays a very messy game of chess, and learns that walking on your hands is much harder than turning somersaults.
- <–2007
- Batchelder Award
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