Showing 1–9 of 9 titles

• Audience: Older
• Format: Book
• Award year: 2001

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  Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America

  By Jim Murphy

  A gripping tale about the disastrous storm that blasted the Eastern seaboard in March 1888. Lending immediacy are eyewitness accounts and evocative visual material. To underscore the historical context, Murphy highlights changes made in weather forecasting and city design after the blizzard.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780590673099
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  Hope Was Here

  By Joan Bauer

  Hope Was Here relates how sixteen-year-old Hope and her aunt move to a small town in Wisconsin to join the “short order dance” of life at the Welcome Stairways Diner. In the course of just a few months, Hope encounters issues as diverse as her customers: corruption in politics, a new love, serious illness, and the meaning of family.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 0-399-23142-0
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  The Longitude Prize

  By Joan Dash, Dusan Petricic (Illustrator)

  Set in the exciting historical framework of the 18th century, "The Longitude Prize," chronicles the invention of a seagoing clock by John Harrison and the surrounding scientific, economic and political activity of 18th-century Great Britain. Petricic's black-and-white illustrations chart with levity Harrison's drive to solve the longitude problem with his clocks and his struggle to receive recognition for his ultimate achievement. A detailed glossary and concise timeline complement the book's bibliography and index.

  • Nonfiction, Technology
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780374346362
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  Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned

  By Judd Winick

  Cartoonist Winick tells the true story of his friendship with AIDS-educator Pedro Zamora in a graphic-novel format. Important lessons are presented in a style friendly to young teens. Learning from the friend he met on MTV's "The Real World," Winick continues Pedro's work even after his death.

  • Nonfiction, Social Sciences
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780805064032
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  Samir and Yonatan

  By Daniella Carmi, Yael Lotan (Translator)

  When Samir, a Palestinian boy, enters an Israeli hospital for surgery, the initial fear and antagonism he feels is mitigated by his bond with Yonatan, an Israeli. Their relationship grows as they face their own physical and emotional trials.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2001 (Medal Winner)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780439135047
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  Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado

  By Marc Aronson

  In this biography, Aronson draws on the events, intrigues and literature of Elizabethan times to create a richly layered account of "the first modern man." Ralegh's search for El Dorado drives the elegantly structured plot and serves as a unifying allegory.

  • Nonfiction, History, World History
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2001 (Medal Winner)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780395848272
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  Ultimate Game

  By Christian Lehmann, William Rodarmor (Translator)

  Lehmann's novel relates moments in the lives of three teens who purchase a computer game that recreates a virtual reality of a time machine of history's evils: war after war. Eric and Charles are pitted against Andreas, the oldest, whose need for power propels him to play the game as judge, jury and finally, prey.

  • Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2001 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781567921076
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  The Wanderer

  By Sharon Creech

  Sailing across the Atlantic with her uncles and cousins becomes a journey of discovery for thirteen-year-old Sophie. The carefully designed plot gradually reveals the truth of Sophie's past, even as readers begin to wonder about this rag-tag crew. Through journal entries, multiple viewpoints are weaved into a story that speaks to the power of survival and the delicacy of grief.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 0-06-027730-0
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  A Year Down Yonder

  By Richard Peck

  A linked series of vignettes set in rural Illinois during the Depression, A Year Down Yonder tells the story of fifteen-year-old Mary Alice who leaves Chicago to spend a year with Grandma Dowdel. Her initial apprehension about life in a small town with a scheming old woman gradually gives way to admiration and love as she recognizes the warm heart behind Grandma's shenanigans.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 2001 (Medal Winner)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 0-8037-2518-3