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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 16:37:42 -0600
SCOTT O'DELL AWARD The 1998 winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction is FORTY ACRES AND MAYBE A MULE by Harriette Gillem Robinet, published by Atheneum/Simon & Schuster. In this moving novel set at the time of Reconstruction, the attempt of the newly-freed slaves to build a home of their own is told through the eyes of a child who remembers the cruelty and separation done to his family in bondage. The research is accurate but unobtrusive; the personal story dramatizes the hope, anguish, strength, and bitter disappointment of slavery's aftermath. Established in 1981 by Scott O'Dell, the annual award for historical fiction is given for a children's or YA book of literary excellence written by a citizen of the U. S. and set in the New World. The members of the award committee are Ann Carlson, Hazel Rochman, and Zena Sutherland (Chair).
_______________________________ Rebecca M. Singer Program Officer, Communications Association for Library Service to Children American Library Association 50 East Huron Chicago, IL 60611'95 800/545$33 ext. 2165 rsinger at ala.org http://www.ala.org/alsc
Received on Tue 02 Feb 1999 04:37:42 PM CST
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 16:37:42 -0600
SCOTT O'DELL AWARD The 1998 winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction is FORTY ACRES AND MAYBE A MULE by Harriette Gillem Robinet, published by Atheneum/Simon & Schuster. In this moving novel set at the time of Reconstruction, the attempt of the newly-freed slaves to build a home of their own is told through the eyes of a child who remembers the cruelty and separation done to his family in bondage. The research is accurate but unobtrusive; the personal story dramatizes the hope, anguish, strength, and bitter disappointment of slavery's aftermath. Established in 1981 by Scott O'Dell, the annual award for historical fiction is given for a children's or YA book of literary excellence written by a citizen of the U. S. and set in the New World. The members of the award committee are Ann Carlson, Hazel Rochman, and Zena Sutherland (Chair).
_______________________________ Rebecca M. Singer Program Officer, Communications Association for Library Service to Children American Library Association 50 East Huron Chicago, IL 60611'95 800/545$33 ext. 2165 rsinger at ala.org http://www.ala.org/alsc
Received on Tue 02 Feb 1999 04:37:42 PM CST
