Annal:2007 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 2007. 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.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Volume 1. The Pox Party
- 2007 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2006 NBA–Youth winner
- 2007 Printz honor
- 2006 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 32.57
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway land — are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians’ fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of…
Sara Pennypacker, Marla Frazee
- 2007 Horn Book-fiction honor
- Score: 6.57
Meet Clementine—a charmingly flawed and quirky character with an altogether unforgettable voice.
Rex Zero and the End of the World
- 2007 Horn Book-fiction honor
- Score: 6.57
Why does everyone seem so scared? That’s what the new boy in town, Rex Norton-Norton, aka Rex Zero, wonders as he rides his bike through Ottawa’s streets. Is it spies? Kidnappers? Or is it because of the shadowy creature some say is stalking Adams Park? One thing is certain in this summer of 1962 as the Cold War heats up: nothing is quite what it seems. What’s a boy to do? If his name is Rex Zero and he has a bike he calls “Diablo,” five wild and funny siblings, an alpha dog named Kincho, a basement bomb shelter built of old Punch magazines, and a mind that turns everything inside out, he’s bound to come up with an amazing idea.
