Annal:2000 Golden Kite Fiction Award
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Golden Kite Fiction Award in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2000 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- Score: 10.5
Having learned how to box while in prison, fifteen-year-old Johnny sets out to discover if he can make a decent living as a fighter in late nineteenth-century New York City.
- 2000 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- 2003 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 10.5
Nory Ryan’s family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory’s father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin Bay, but this year, a terrible blight attacks the potatoes. No crop means starvation. Twelve-year-old Nory must summon…
