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Jane Addams Peace Award for Older Readers honor books
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1990 Lowry, Lois Number the Stars In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. 1989 Children's Fiction Book LOWRY |
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1990 Reeder, Carolyn Shades of Gray At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a traitor because he refused to take part in the war. 1989 Children's Fiction Book REEDER |
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1990 Bunting, Eve, 1928- The Wednesday Surprise On Wednesday nights when Grandma stays with Anna everyone thinks she is teaching Anna to read. 1989 Easy Picture Book BUNTING |
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1991 Gordon, Sheila The Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa [not in HCL] |
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1992 Myers, Walter Dean Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into the Sixties. Includes material on Abd al-Rahmen Ibrahima, James Forten, George Latimer, Dred Scott, John Brown, Ida B. Wells, Meta Vaux Warrick, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. 1991 Children's Nonfiction Book 301.45196 M |
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1993 Lyons, Mary E. Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842. 1992 Teen Fiction Book LYONS |
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1994 Freedman, Russell Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own. 1993 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 R673 |
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1995 Woodson, Jacqueline I Hadn't Meant to Tell You this Marie, the only Black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private. 1994 Teen Fiction Book WOODSON |
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1996 Woodson, Jacqueline From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Thirteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman. 1995 Teen Fiction Book WOODSON |
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1996 Curtis, Christopher Paul The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. 1995 Children's Fiction Book CURTIS |
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1997 Williams, Laura E. Behind the Bedroom Wall Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler Youth Group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret place behind Korinna's bedroom wall. 1996 Children's Fiction Book WILLIAM |
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1998 Jimenez, Francisco The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1999 Teen Fiction Book JIMENEZ |
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1998 Fleischman, Paul Seedfolks One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed. 1997 Children's Fiction Book FLEISCHMA |
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1999 Bruchac, Joseph The Heart of a Chief An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town. 1998 Children's Fiction Book BRUCHAC |
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1999 McKee, Tim No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa Twelve South African teenagers talk about growing up under apartheid and about the changes now taking place. 1998 Children's Nonfiction Book 968.065 M |
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1999 Partridge, Elizabeth Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms. 1998 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 L257 |
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2000 Erdrich, Louise The Birchbark House Omakayas, a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847 and learns about her past. 1999 Children's Fiction Book ERDRICH |
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2000 Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Kids On Strike! Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers. 1999 Children's Nonfiction Book 331.892 B |
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2001 Joseph, Lynn The Color of My Words When life gets difficult for Ana Rosa, a twelve-year-old would-be writer living in a small village in the Dominican Republic, she can depend on her older brother to make her feel better -- until the life-changing events on her thirteenth birthday. 2000 Children's Fiction Book JOSEPH |
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2001 Levine, Ellen. Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II. 2000 Children's Nonfiction Book 940.5315 L |
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