Youths4Peace

2000
Jane Addams
Award Books

2000 Jane Addams Awards

Books for Older Children

Bridges, Ruby.  Through My Eyes.  Scholastic Press, 1999.  ISBN:  0590189239.

Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.  Gr. 3-7.

Honor Books

Erdrich, Louise.  The Birchbark House.  Hyperion, 1999.  ISBN:  0786803002.

For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker.  Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has.  Every summer the family builds a new birchbark house; every fall they go to ricing camp to harvest and feast; they move to the cedar log house before the first snows arrive, and celebrate the end of the long, cold winters at maple-sugaring camp.  In between, Omakayas fights with her annoying little brother Pinch, plays with the adorable baby, Neewo, and tries to be grown-up like her beautiful older sister, Angeline.  But the satisfying rhythms of their lives are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever.  Gr. 4-6.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti.  Kids on Strike!  Houghton Mifflin, 1999.  ISBN:  0395888921.

Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.  Gr. 4-6.

Picture Books

Alice McGill.  Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet.  Molly Bannaky.  Houghton Mifflin, 1999.  ISBN-10: 039572287X.

Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.  Gr. K-3.

Honor Books

Hopkinson, Deborah.  Illustrated by Raúl Colón.  A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers.  Atheneum, 1999.  ISBN:  0689810628.

The daughter of a slave forms a gospel-singing group and goes on tour to raise money to save Fisk University. Gr. 1-4.

Molly Bang.  When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry.  Scholastic,1999.  ISBN:  0439598451.

Everybody gets angry sometimes.  For children, anger can be very upsetting.  Parents, teachers, and children can talk about it.  People do lots of different things when they get angry.  In this Caldecott Honor book, kids will see what Sophie does when she gets angry.  Ages 2-7.

Jane Addams

2001