Sequoyah Book Award
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The Sequoyah Children's Book Award is given each year to the book that is selected by Oklahoma
students in 3rd-5th grades as their favorite. The Sequoyah Young Adult Award (renamed the Intermediate Award in 2010), which is voted for by Oklahoma students in 6th-8th grades, was created in 1988. In 2010, a new category, the High School Award, was added and is voted for by Oklahoma students in the 9th-12th grades. The Sequoyah Committee also selects the "Donna Norvell Award" for easy reader books, Pre-K-2nd grades. However, this award is chosen by the committee members and not by the students themselves. The Sequoyah Book Awards and the Donna Norvell Award are sponsored by the Oklahoma Library Association.
The award is named after the Cherokee man, Sequoyah
, who developed the Cherokee syllabary
and lived for a time in eastern Oklahoma, near Sallisaw
.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
students in 3rd-5th grades as their favorite. The Sequoyah Young Adult Award (renamed the Intermediate Award in 2010), which is voted for by Oklahoma students in 6th-8th grades, was created in 1988. In 2010, a new category, the High School Award, was added and is voted for by Oklahoma students in the 9th-12th grades. The Sequoyah Committee also selects the "Donna Norvell Award" for easy reader books, Pre-K-2nd grades. However, this award is chosen by the committee members and not by the students themselves. The Sequoyah Book Awards and the Donna Norvell Award are sponsored by the Oklahoma Library Association.
The award is named after the Cherokee man, Sequoyah
Sequoyah
Sequoyah , named in English George Gist or George Guess, was a Cherokee silversmith. In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible...
, who developed the Cherokee syllabary
Cherokee syllabary
The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language in the late 1810s and early 1820s. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy in that he could not previously read any script. He first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed...
and lived for a time in eastern Oklahoma, near Sallisaw
Sequoyah's Cabin
Sequoyah's Cabin was the home during 1829-1844 of the Cherokee Indian, Sequoyah , who created a written language for the Cherokee Nation.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965....
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List of Sequoyah Children's Book Award winners
Year | Title | Author |
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1959 | Old Yeller Old Yeller Old Yeller is a 1956 children's novel by Fred Gipson, which received a Newbery Honor in 1957. It was illustrated by Carl Burger. The title is taken from the name of the big yellow dog who is the center of the book's story... |
Fred Gipson Fred Gipson Frederick Benjamin Gipson was an American author. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was born on a farm near Mason in the Texas Hill Country, the son of Beck Gipson and the former Emma Deishler... |
1960 | Black Gold | Marguerite Henry Marguerite Henry Marguerite Henry was an American writer. Henry inspired children all over the world with her love of animals, especially horses. The author of fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals, her work has captivated entire generations of children and young adults and won... |
1961 | Have Space Suit—Will Travel | Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of... |
1962 | The Helen Keller Story | Catherine O. Peare |
1963 | Mystery of the Haunted Pool | Phyllis Whitney |
1964 | Where the Panther Screams | William Robinson William Robinson William Robinson, or Will Robinson or Bill Robinson or other nicknames, may refer to:-Historical:* William Robinson , Quaker martyr* William Benjamin Robinson , Canadian fur trader and political figure... |
1965 | A Wrinkle in Time A Wrinkle in Time A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract. The book won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and... |
Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time... |
1966 | Rascal Rascal (book) Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, often referred to as Rascal, is a 1963 children's book by Sterling North about his childhood in Wisconsin.-Publication:Rascal was published in 1963... |
Sterling North Sterling North Thomas Sterling North was an American author of books for children and adults, including 1963's bestselling Rascal. North, who professionally went by "Sterling North", was born on the second floor of a farmhouse on the shores of Lake Koshkonong, a few miles from Edgerton, Wisconsin, in 1906, and... |
1967 | Harriet the Spy Harriet the Spy Harriet the Spy is a children's novel by Louise Fitzhugh published in 1964. It won the Sequoyah Book Award and the New York Times Outstanding Book Award in 1964.-Plot summary:... |
Louise Fitzhugh Louise Fitzhugh Louise Fitzhugh was an American author and illustrator of young adult and children's literature.Her work includes Harriet the Spy, its sequels The Long Secret and Sport, and Nobody's Family is Going to Change.-Early life:Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she soon experienced her parents' divorce, from... |
1968 | Gentle Ben Gentle Ben Gentle Ben is a children's novel by author Walt Morey, first published in 1965. The book concerns the friendship between the title character, a bear, and a young boy named Mark... |
Walt Morey Walt Morey Walter "Walt" Morey , was an award-winning author of numerous works of children's fiction, set in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Alaska, the places where Morey lived for all of his life... |
1969 | Blackbeard’s Ghost | Ben Stahl |
1970 | Mustang | Marguerite Henry Marguerite Henry Marguerite Henry was an American writer. Henry inspired children all over the world with her love of animals, especially horses. The author of fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals, her work has captivated entire generations of children and young adults and won... |
1971 | Ramona the Pest Ramona the Pest Ramona the Pest is the first of Beverly Cleary's books to focus on Ramona Quimby as the protagonist. This children's book chronicles the adventures of Ramona's first few months at kindergarten... |
Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary is an American author. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before writing children's books. Cleary has written more than 30 books for young adults and children. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice Quimby, her... |
1972 | Man in the Box | Mary Lois Dunn |
1973 | The Trumpet of the Swan The Trumpet of the Swan The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a Trumpeter Swan born without a voice and trying to overcome it by learning to play a trumpet, always trying to impress a beautiful pen named Serena.-Plot summary:In Canada in the spring of... |
E.B. White |
1974 | Flight of the White Wolf | Mel Ellis |
1975 | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a children's novel written by Judy Blume in 1972. It is the first of the "Fudge books". It was followed by Superfudge, Fudge-A-Mania and, most recently, Double Fudge... |
Judy Blume Judy Blume Judy Blume is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages... |
1976 | How to Eat Fried Worms How to Eat Fried Worms How to Eat Fried Worms is the title of a children's book written by Thomas Rockwell, first published in 1973. It was later turned into a CBS Storybreak episode in the mid-1980s, and a movie of the same name in 2006... |
Thomas Rockwell Thomas Rockwell Thomas Rhodes Rockwell is the author of a number of books for young readers. He was the recipient of the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Sequoyah Book Award for How to Eat Fried Worms, which was made into a TV movie in 1985 and was filmed as a theatrical release in 2006... |
1977 | The Toothpaste Millionaire | Jean Merrill Jean Merrill Jean Merrill is an American author of children's books and editor, best known for The Pushcart War, originally published in 1964. Merrill currently lives in Vermont.-Early life:... |
1978 | Shoeshine Girl | Clyde Robert Bulla |
1979 | Summer of the Monkeys | Wilson Rawls Wilson Rawls Wilson Rawls, born Woodrow Wilson Rawls, was an American writer best known for his books Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys.- Childhood :... |
1980 | Kid Power | Susan B. Pfeffer |
1981 | Get-Away Car | Eleanor Clymer Eleanor Clymer Eleanor Clymer, born Eleanor Lowenton , was a writer of children's books, best known for The Trolley Car Family . She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1928 with a degree in English... |
1982 | Bunnicula Bunnicula Bunnicula is a children's book series written by James Howe about a vampire bunny that sucks the juice out of vegetables. It is also the name of the first book in the series, published 1979 .The story is centered on the Monroe family and their pets and is told from the perspective of their dog... |
James Howe James Howe James Howe is the American author of over 80 juvenile and young adult books, including the Bunnicula series, about a vampire rabbit that sucks the juice out of vegetables.-Biography:... |
1983 | A Dog Called Kitty | Bill Wallace |
1984 | The Cybil War | Betsy Byars Betsy Byars Betsy Cromer Byars is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal... |
1985 | Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub | Jamie Gilson Jamie Gilson Jamie Gilson is an American author of twenty children’s books. Explaining her approach to writing, Gilson says, “I watch what kids are doing and write stories based on what I see.”- Life:... |
1986 | Dear Mr. Henshaw Dear Mr. Henshaw Dear Mr. Henshaw is a juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary which was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1984.-Plot summary:Dear Mr. Henshaw begins with the book's main character, Leigh Botts, writing a letter, as part of a second grade classroom assignment, to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. Mr... |
Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary is an American author. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before writing children's books. Cleary has written more than 30 books for young adults and children. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice Quimby, her... |
Just Tell Me When We’re Dead | Eth Clifford | |
1987 | Night of the Twisters | Ivy Ruckman Ivy Ruckman Ivy Ruckman is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Her works include Melba the Brain and Night of the Twisters, which was made into a 1996 movie. Ruckman lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.-External links:... |
1988 | Christina's Ghost Christina's Ghost Christina's Ghost is a novel written by Betty Ren Wright. It was published in 1985 by Scholastic inc. It is presently found in over 2000 libraries - Synopsis :... |
Betty Ren Wright Betty Ren Wright Betty Ren Wright is an author of children's fiction including Christina's Ghost, The Dollhouse Murders, The Ghosts Of Mercy Manor and A Ghost in The House.- Background :... |
1989 | The Sixth Grade Sleepover | Eve Bunting Eve Bunting Anne Evelyn Bunting , better known as Eve Bunting, is an Irish author who has written more than 250 books. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction books. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but her works also include picture books... |
1990 | Fudge | Charlotte Graeber |
1991 | Beauty | Bill Wallace |
1992 | The Doll in the Garden The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story is a children's novel by Mary Downing Hahn. It was first published in 1989.-Plot summary:In The Doll in the Garden, Ashley and her widowed mother rent a house once owned by mean Ms. Cooper. While looking in Ms. Cooper's dead rose garden with her neighbor,... |
Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn is an award-winning American author of young adult novels. Her first published book, The Sara Summer, was released in 1979, when she was forty-one years old. Since then she has written over twenty novels... |
1993 | Weasel | Cynthia DeFelice Cynthia DeFelice Cynthia DeFelice is an American children's book author. She has written 16 novels, and 12 picture books for young readers. Her intended audience for her novels is children at the reading level of ages nine to twelve.... |
1994 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is an American author best known for her children and young adult fiction books. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel trilogy Shiloh , Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, all made into movies... |
1995 | Horror at the Haunted House | Peg Kehret Peg Kehret Peg Kehret is an American writer. Her writing primarily targets younger children between the ages of 8 and 14.... |
1996 | The Ghosts of Mercy Manor | Betty Ren Wright |
1997 | Nasty, Stinky Sneakers | Eve Bunting Eve Bunting Anne Evelyn Bunting , better known as Eve Bunting, is an Irish author who has written more than 250 books. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction books. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but her works also include picture books... |
1998 | Titanic Crossing | Barbara Williams Barbara Williams Barbara Williams is a Canadian-born American actress. Williams starred in the 1984 Paramount film Thief of Hearts and in the 1992 film Oh, What a Night.... |
1999 | 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents | Lee Wardlaw |
2000 | The Million Dollar Shot | Dan Gutman Dan Gutman Dan Gutman is an American author from New Jersey. A prolific writer, Gutman has written 80 books, both fictional and non-fictional, under publishers including Penguin Books, Macmillan, Scholastic Press, and HarperCollins... |
2001 | Holes | Louis Sachar Louis Sachar Louis Sachar is an American author of children's books who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes, for which Sachar won a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal... |
2002 | Dork in Disguise | Carol Gorman |
2003 | Because of Winn-Dixie Because of Winn-Dixie Because of Winn-Dixie is a children's novel by Kate DiCamillo published in 2000 and winner of a Newbery Honor distinction the following year. It also won the 2000 Josette Frank Award, and 2003 Mark Twain Award... |
Kate DiCamillo Kate DiCamillo Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American children's author. She is known for the Newbery Medal-winning book The Tale of Despereaux, the Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, and the Mercy Watson series, plus numerous other award-winning and honored books.-Early life:Born in... |
2004 | Skeleton Man | Joseph Bruchac |
2005 | The Stranger Next Door | Peg Kehret Peg Kehret Peg Kehret is an American writer. Her writing primarily targets younger children between the ages of 8 and 14.... |
2006 | The Tale of Despereaux The Tale of Despereaux The Tale of Despereaux, also known as The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread is a 2004 Newbery Medal winning fantasy book written by Kate DiCamillo. The main plot follows the adventures of a mouse named Despereaux, who sets out on his quest... |
Kate DiCamillo Kate DiCamillo Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American children's author. She is known for the Newbery Medal-winning book The Tale of Despereaux, the Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, and the Mercy Watson series, plus numerous other award-winning and honored books.-Early life:Born in... |
2007 | The World according to Humphrey | Betty Birney |
2008 | Angus and Sadie | Cynthia Voigt Cynthia Voigt Cynthia Voigt is an American author of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, Homecoming, was nominated for several international prizes and made into a 1996 film... |
2009 | Clementine | Sara Pennypacker Sara Pennypacker Sara Pennypacker, born in Massachusetts, is an author of children's literature who was awarded the Golden Kite Award for Pierre In Love.She has written thirteen children's books, including the those in the Clementine and Stuart series... |
2010 | Lawn Boy | Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Gary James Paulsen is an American writer who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books , 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults and teens.-Biography:Gary Paulsen was born in... |
2011 | All the Lovely Bad Ones | Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn is an award-winning American author of young adult novels. Her first published book, The Sara Summer, was released in 1979, when she was forty-one years old. Since then she has written over twenty novels... |
List of Sequoyah Young Adult / Intermediate winners
Year | Title | Author |
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1988 | Abby My Love | Hadley Irwin |
1989 | The Other Side of Dark | Joan Lowery Nixon Joan Lowery Nixon Joan Lowery Nixon was an American journalist and author, specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children and young adults.-Biography:... |
1990 | Hatchet Hatchet (novel) Hatchet is a 1987 three-time Newbery Honor-winning wilderness survival novel written by Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel in the Hatchet series and is followed by four sequels.... |
Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Gary James Paulsen is an American writer who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books , 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults and teens.-Biography:Gary Paulsen was born in... |
1991 | A Sudden Silence | Eve Bunting Eve Bunting Anne Evelyn Bunting , better known as Eve Bunting, is an Irish author who has written more than 250 books. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction books. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but her works also include picture books... |
1992 | Appointment with a Stranger | Jean Thesman |
1993 | The Silver Kiss | Annette Curtis Klause Annette Curtis Klause Annette Curtis Klause is an American author and librarian, specializing in young adult fiction. Annette is currently a children's materials selector for Montgomery County Public Libraries in Montgomery County, Maryland. Born in Bristol, England, she now lives in Hyattsville, Maryland with her... |
1994 | What Daddy Did | Neal Shusterman Neal Shusterman Neal Shusterman is a popular and successful American author of Young Adult literature.Shusterman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Even from a young age, Shusterman was an avid reader. At age 8, Shusterman sent a letter to E. B. White, informing him that he believed Charlotte's Web... |
1995 | Flight 116 is Down | Caroline B. Cooney Caroline B. Cooney Caroline B. Cooney is an American author of suspense, romance, horror and mystery books for young adults. She currently resides in Fort Mill, South Carolina.... |
1996 | The Giver The Giver The Giver is a 1993 soft science fiction novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life... |
Lois Lowry Lois Lowry Lois Lowry is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s... |
1997 | Walk Two Moons Walk Two Moons Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech and published in 1994. It won the 1995 Newbery Medal. It was originally intended as a follow-up to Creech's previous novel Absolutely Normal Chaos, however, the idea was changed after Creech began writing.-Plot summary:The novel is narrated by a 13... |
Sharon Creech Sharon Creech Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction.-Biography:Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents , one sister , and three brothers... |
1998 | Running Out of Time | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
1999 | Danger Zone | David Klass |
2000 | I Have Lived A Thousand Years | Livia Bitton-Jackson Livia Bitton-Jackson Livia Bitton-Jackson is an author and Holocaust survivor. Although she was born as Elli L. Friedmann in Czechoslovakia, she was 13 years old when she, along with her mother and brother, were taken to Auschwitz, the largest German concentration camp. She and her brother, Bubi, were liberated in... |
2001 | Holes Holes (novel) Holes is a Newbery Medal-winning novel by Louis Sachar. It was adapted into a screenplay for the 2003 film by Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, Sachar published Small Steps, a companion novel featuring one of the characters from Holes.-Plot:... |
Louis Sachar Louis Sachar Louis Sachar is an American author of children's books who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes, for which Sachar won a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal... |
2002 | Speak Speak (novel) Speak is a 1999 novel by Laurie Halse Anderson about a girl named Melinda Sordino who is an outcast as a high school freshman. It was made into a film of the same name in 2004. The novel was a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller... |
Laurie Halse Anderson Laurie Halse Anderson Laurie Halse Anderson is an American author who writes for children and young adults.-Career:... |
2003 | Define Normal | Julie Ann Peters |
2004 | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares Ann Brashares Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books.... |
2005 | The House of the Scorpion The House of the Scorpion The House of the Scorpion is a science fiction novel by Nancy Farmer. It is about a young boy named Matteo Alacrán who is being raised by a drug lord of the same name, usually referred to by his assumed title "El Patrón" throughout the text. It is a story about the struggle to survive as a free... |
Nancy Farmer Nancy Farmer (author) Nancy Farmer is a prominent children's book author from the United States.Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley... |
2006 | Eragon Eragon Eragon is the first book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, who began writing at the age of 15. After writing the first draft for a year, he spent a second year rewriting it and fleshing out the story and characters. Paolini's parents saw the final manuscript and decided to... |
Christopher Paolini Christopher Paolini Christopher Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance... |
2007 | Red Kayak Red Kayak Red Kayak is a young adult novel by American author Priscilla Cummings. It was first published in 2004.- Synopsis :Brady loves his life of crabbing and oyster fishing on Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. While Brady makes friends with new rich families moving into the area, like the... |
Priscilla Cummings |
2008 | The Lightning Thief The Lightning Thief The Lightning Thief is a 2005 fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by Rick Riordan. It is the first novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, which charts the adventures of modern-day twelve-year-old Percy Jackson as he discovers he is a... |
Rick Riordan Rick Riordan Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series... |
2009 | Runaway | Wendelin Van Draanen Wendelin Van Draanen Wendelin Van Draanen is an American author of children's books.- Biography :Van Draanen lives in California with her husband Mark Parsons and two sons, Colton and Connor. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated to the U.S. from Holland... |
2010 | Unwind Unwind (novel) Unwind is a 2007 science fiction novel by young adult literature author Neal Shusterman. It takes place in the United States, somewhere in the near future... |
Neal Shusterman Neal Shusterman Neal Shusterman is a popular and successful American author of Young Adult literature.Shusterman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Even from a young age, Shusterman was an avid reader. At age 8, Shusterman sent a letter to E. B. White, informing him that he believed Charlotte's Web... |
2011 | The Hunger Games The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is a first person young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic. It is the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world... |
Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and novelist.-Early life:Suzanne Collins is the daughter of an Air Force officer. She graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts and earned her M.F.A. from New York University in Dramatic Writing.... |
List of Sequoyah High School Award winners
Year | Title | Author |
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2010 | Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why is a 2007 New York Times best-selling young-adult fiction novel written by Jay Asher. The book was published by RazorBill, a young adult imprint of Penguin Books. The paperback edition hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in July 2011... |
Jay Asher Jay Asher Jay Asher is an American writer of contemporary novels for teens. He has one major publication in the genre of Young Adult Literature.-Biography:... |
2011 | The Hunger Games The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is a first person young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic. It is the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world... |
Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and novelist.-Early life:Suzanne Collins is the daughter of an Air Force officer. She graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts and earned her M.F.A. from New York University in Dramatic Writing.... |
List of Donna Norvell Award winners
Year | Title | Author |
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2006 | Wild About Books | Judy Sierra |
2007 | Leaf Man | Lois Ehlert Lois Ehlert Lois Ehlert is an author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo . She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.-Background:... |
2008 | Not a Box Not a Box Not a Box is a children's book by Antoinette Portis.It is graded for Newborn to 6 years old.It won a 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor and a 2008 Donna Norvell Award.... |
Antoinette Portis |
2009 | Fred Stays with Me! | Nancy Coffelt |
2010 | Maybe a Bear Ate It! | Robie Harris Robie Harris Robie H. Harris is an author, specializing in books for children. She was born in Buffalo, New York, and currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts... |
2011 | Chicken Dance | Tammi Sauer |