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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award

First presented in 1967 and customarily announced in June, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Two Honor Books may be named in each category. On occasion, a book will receive a special citation for its high quality and overall creative excellence.

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2023

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Warrior girl unearthed

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Sunshine : how one camp taught me about life, death, and hope

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When you can swim

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2022

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All my rage

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Black birds in the sky : the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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Ain't burned all the bright

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2021

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A sitting in St. James

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From a whisper to a rallying cry : the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement

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I talk like a river

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2020

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King and the dragonflies

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Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace

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Saturday

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2019

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The season of Styx Malone

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This promise of change : one girl's story in the fight for school equality

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The patchwork bike

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2018

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The poet X : a novel

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Photographic : the life of Graciela Iturbide

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They say blue

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2017

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The hate u give

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Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh brothers

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Freedom over me : eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2016

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The Lie Tree

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Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War

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Jazz day : the making of a famous photograph

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2015

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Cartwheeling in thunderstorms

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The family Romanov : murder, rebellion & the fall of Imperial Russia

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The farmer and the clown

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2014

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Grasshopper jungle : a history

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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

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Mr. Tiger goes wild

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2013

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Eleanor & Park

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Electric Ben : the amazing life and times of Benjamin Franklin

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Building our house

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2012

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No crystal stair : a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller

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Face book

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Extra yarn

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2011

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Blink & Caution

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The notorious Benedict Arnold : a true story of adventure, heroism, & treachery

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Pocketful of posies : a treasury of nursery rhymes

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2010

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When you reach me

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Marching for freedom : walk together, children, and don't you grow weary

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I know here

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2009

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Nation

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The Lincolns : a scrapbook look at Abraham and Mary

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Bubble trouble

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2008

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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

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The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain

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At night

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The arrival

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2007

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The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. 1 The pox party

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The strongest man in the world : Louis Cyr

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Dog and Bear : two friends, three stories

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2006

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The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane

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If you decide to go to the moon

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Leaf Man

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2005

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The Schwa was here

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The race to save the Lord God Bird

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Traction Man is here!

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2004

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The fire-eaters

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An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793

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The man who walked between the towers

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2003

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The Jamie and Angus stories

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Fireboat : the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey

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To fly : the story of the Wright brothers
Revenge of the whale : the true story of the whaleship Essex
In the heart of the sea : the true story of the whaleship Essex
Originally published under the title "Revenge of the whale : the true story of the whaleship Essex"

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Big Momma makes the world

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2002

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Lord of the deep

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This land was made for you and me : the life and songs of Woody Guthrie

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Let's get a pup!, said Kate

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2001

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Carver, a life in poems

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The longitude prize

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Cold feet

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 2000

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The Folk Keeper

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King of shadows
145th Street : short stories
145th street : short stories
20th anniversary edition

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Sir Walter Ralegh and the quest for El Dorado

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Henry hikes to Fitchburg

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1999

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Holes

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The top of the world : climbing Mount Everest

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Red-eyed tree frog

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Dance
The Owl and the pussycat
Illustrated by James Marshall

Tibet : through the red box

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1998

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Leon's story

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And if the moon could talk

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1997

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The friends

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A drop of water : a book of science and wonder

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The adventures of sparrowboy

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1996

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Poppy

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Orphan train rider : one boy's true story

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In the rain with Baby Duck

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1995

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Some of the kinder planets

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Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution

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John Henry

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Swamp Angel

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1994

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Scooter

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Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery

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Grandfather's journey

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Owen
A small tall tale from the far Far North

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1993

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Ajeemah and his son

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Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman?

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Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought)

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The fortune-tellers

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1992

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Talking with artists
Volume 1

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Seven blind mice

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In the tall, tall grass
In the tall, tall grass
Big Book

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1991

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The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle

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Paradise Café and other stories
Judy Scuppernong

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Appalachia : the voices of sleeping birds

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The tale of the mandarin ducks

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1990

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Maniac Magee

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The great little Madison

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Valentine & Orson : re-created as a folk play in verse and paintings

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1989

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The village by the sea

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The way things work

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Shy Charles

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1988

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The friendship

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Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave

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African journey
Little by Little : a writer's education

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The boy of the three-year nap

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1987

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Rabble Starkey

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Georgia music
Isaac Campion

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The pilgrims of Plimoth

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The magic school bus at the waterworks
Steamboat in a cornfield
Being born

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Mufaro's beautiful daughters : an African tale
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Cinderella around the world”

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1986

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In summer light

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Auks, rocks, and the odd dinosaur: inside stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History

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Dark harvest: migrant farmworkers in America
The truth about Santa Claus

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The paper crane

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Gorilla
The trek
The Polar Express
The Polar Express
20th anniversary edition

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1985

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The moves make the man

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Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun

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Mama don't allow : starring Miles and the Swamp Band

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1, 2, 3

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1984

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A little fear

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The double life of Pocahontas

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Jonah and the great fish

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1983

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Sweet whispers, Brother Rush

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Behind barbed wire : the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II

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Hiroshima no pika
The Jewish Americans: a history in their own words: 1650-1950

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A chair for my mother

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Friends
Yeh-Shen : a Cinderella story from China
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Cinderella around the world”
Doctor De Soto

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1982

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Playing Beatie Bow

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Upon the head of the goat : a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944

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Lobo of the Tasaday
Dinosaurs of North America

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A visit to William Blake's inn : poems for innocent and experienced travelers

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The Friendly beasts : an old English Christmas carol

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1981

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The leaving

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Weaver's gift

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You can't be timid with a trumpet : notes from the orchestra
The hospital book
Junk food, fast food, health food: what America eats and why

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Outside over there

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1980

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Conrad's war

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Building: the fight against gravity

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The garden of Abdul Gasazi

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Graham Oakley's Magical changes

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1979

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Humbug Mountain

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Silas and Ben-Godik
All together now : a novel

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The road from home : the story of an Armenian girl

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The story of American photography: an illustrated history for young people
The iron road : a portrait of American railroading
Self-portrait: Margot Zemach

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The snowman

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1978

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Mischling, second degree : my childhood in Nazi Germany

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Settlers and strangers: Native Americans of the desert Southwest and history as they saw it
Castle
Castle
Full color edition

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Anno's journey

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The story of Edward
On to Widecombe Fair
What do you feed your donkey on? Rhymes from a Belfast Childhood

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1977

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Child of the owl

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Chance, luck, and destiny

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Watching the wild apes
The colonial cookbook
From slave to abolitionist

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Granfa' Grig had a pig and other rhymes without reason

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The changing city
The changing countryside

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1976

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Unleaving

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Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China trade

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Thirteen

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The desert is theirs
Six little ducks
Song of the boat

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Transport 7-41-R

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The hundred penny box

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Anno's alphabet; an adventure in imagination

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1974

Fiction
Picture Book

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M.C. Higgins, the great

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Jambo means hello; Swahili alphabet book

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1973

Fiction
Picture Book

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The dark is rising

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The cat who wished to be a man
An island in a green sea
No way of telling

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King Stork

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1972

Fiction
Picture Book

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Tristan & Iseult

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Mr. Gumpy's outing

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1971

Fiction
Picture Book

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A room made of windows

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If I built a village...

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Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1970

Fiction
Picture Book

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The intruder

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Where the lilies bloom

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Hi, cat!

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A story, a story; an African tale

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1969

Fiction
Picture Book

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Turi's poppa
Flambards
The pigman; a novel
The pigman

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The adventures of Paddy Pork

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New Moon Cove
Monkey in the jungle
Thy friend, Obadiah

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1968

Fiction
Picture Book

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The spring rider

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Young Mark : the story of a venture
Dark venture
Smith
The endless steppe; growing up in Siberia

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Tikki Tikki Tembo
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Big Book

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Gilgamesh: man's first story
Jorinda and Joringel
Rosie's walk
All in free but Janey

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 1967

Fiction
Picture Book

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The little fishes

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London Bridge is falling down

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