Annal:2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 2009. 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.
- 2009 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2008 LATimes–Young Adult winner
- 2009 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- 2009 Printz honor
- 2009 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 36.59
“The sea has taken everything.”
Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne—a girl from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave.
Together the two confront the aftermath of catastrophe. Drawn by the smoke of Mau and Daphne’s sheltering fire, other refugees slowly arrive: children without parents, mothers without babies, husbands without wives—all of them hungry and all of them frightened. As Mau and Daphne struggle to keep the small band safe and fed, they defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down….
Internationally revered storyteller Terry Pratchett presents a breathtaking adventure of survival and discovery, and of the courage required to forge new beliefs.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves
- 2009 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 2009 Printz honor
- Score: 12.59
Fearing a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows—the College of Lucidity, the rebel cause—Octavian hopes to find safe harbor. Instead, he is soon to learn of Lord Dunmore’s proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces.
In Volume II of his unparalleled masterwork, M. T. Anderson recounts Octavian’s experiences as the Revolutionary War explodes around him, thrusting him into intense battles and tantalizing him with elusive visions of liberty. Ultimately, this astonishing narrative escalates to a startling, deeply satisfying climax, while reexamining our national origins in a singularly provocative light.
- 2009 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2009 Newbery winner
- 2009 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 2009 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- 2009 WFA–Novel nominee
- 2008 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 44.59
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.
There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.
But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family….
Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.
