Annal:2001 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 2001. 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.
Carver: A Life in Poems
- 2001 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2002 Newbery honor
- 2001 NBA–Youth finalist
- Score: 22.51
This collection of poems assembled by award-winning writer Marilyn Nelson provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver. Born in 1864 and raised by white slave owners, Carver left home in search of an education and eventually earned a master’s degree in agriculture. In 1896, he was invited by Booker T. Washington to head the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute. There he conducted innovative research to find uses for crops such as…
- 2002 Newbery honor
- 2001 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 2004 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 16.52
By the author of The Trolls, a National Book Award Finalist.
My name is Primrose Squarp. I am eleven years old. I have hair the color of carrots in apricot glaze (recipe to follow), skin fair and clear where it isn’t freckled, and eyes like summer storms.
Readers will know right from the start that the narrator of Everything on a Waffle is going to tell her story straight and pull no punches. Primrose’s parents have been lost at sea, but she believes without an iota of doubt that they are still alive, somewhere. She moves in with her Uncle…
- 2001 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 2000 Carnegie shortlist
- 2000 Whitbread-Children's shortlist
- 2001 Guardian Award longlist
- Score: 22.51
The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is becoming scarce and the death toll is rising. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the Gods keep watch. But Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, is bored with the endless, dreary war, and so she turns her attention to two sisters: Marpessa, who is gifted with God-sight and serves as handmaiden to Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world; and Xanthe, who is kind and loving and tends the wounded soldiers in the Blood Room. When Eros fits an arrow to his silver-lit bow and lets it fly, neither sister will escape its power.
