Showing 1–5 of 5 titles

• Audience: Middle
• Award year: 2005

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  Coming on Home Soon

  By Jacqueline Woodson, E.B. Lewis (Illustrator)

  Evocative watercolor paintings illuminate a story of cross-generational love and convey the longing of a child anticipating her mother's return. Lewis's portraiture and attention to light sources, from cold winter hues to warm interior tones, reflect the loneliness of the child and the comforting strength of her grandmother.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 2005 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780399237485
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  The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove

  By Bodil Bredsdorff, Faith Ingwersen (Translator)

  In this sparse yet moving novel, the Crow-Girl and her grandmother live in a stone house on a sea cove.  After her grandmother dies, the child follows the beckoning cries of two crows and leaves her home.  While on her journey, the Crow-Girl encounters people who attempt to break her spirit, as well as those who open their hearts and eventually become her chosen family.

  • Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2005 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780374312473
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  Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing

  By James Rumford, Anna Sixkiller Huckaby (Translator)

  In spare, poetic writing and richly colored, expressive illustrations, Rumford captures the character of Sequoyah, the man who created a writing system for the Cherokee language. A parallel translation (by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby) in Cherokee demonstrates the lasting influence of this creative genius.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2005 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780618369478
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  The Tarantula Scientist

  By Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop (Illustrator)

  Montgomery's vigorous and sometimes humorous text, enlivened by Bishop's striking color close-up photography, introduces field scientist Sam Marshall and his hairy subjects. This team effort is an irresistible invitation to real scientific work.

  • Nonfiction, Science, Animals
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2005 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780618147991
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  Walt Whitman: Words for America

  By Barbara Kerley, Brian Selznick (Illustrator)

  Kerley's lyrical prose portrait of Whitman captures the remarkable humanity and compassion of this quintessentially American poet, while Selznick's evocative art, inspired by period photographs, breathes visual life into this moving tribute. This memorable account of Whitman's experiences before and during the Civil War is brilliantly supported by the poet's own words, as well as contemporary and later sources.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2005 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780439357913