Gallery: The 2016 Boston Globe Horn Book Award Winners
The Boston Globe Horn Book Awards were just announced – let’s have a look at the winners:
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Nonfiction Award Winner:
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
Nonfiction Honor Books:
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement written by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes
Fiction Award Winner:
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Fiction Honor Books:
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
Picture Book Award Winner:
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph written by Roxane Orgill, illustrated by Francis Vallejo
Picture Book Honor Books:
Thunder Boy Jr. written by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Yuyi Morales
One Day, the End: Short, Very Short, Shorter-than- Ever Stories written by Rebecca Kai Dotlich,
illustrated by Fred Koehler
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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