Youths4Peace

2004
Jane Addams
Award Books

2004 Jane Addams Awards

Naidoo, Berverley.  Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope.  HarperCollins, 2003.  ISBN:  0060507993.

Winner in the category of Books for Older Children.  For almost fifty years apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and "Coloreds."  This unique and dramatic collection of stories -- by native South African and Carnegie Medalist Beverley Naidoo -- is about young people's choices in a beautiful country made ugly by injustice.  Each story is set in a different decade during the last half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and features fictional characters caught up in very real events. Included is a Timeline Across Apartheid, which recounts some of the restrictive laws passed during this era, the events leading up to South Africa's first free democratic elections, and the establishment of a new "rainbow government" that leads the country today.  Gr. 5 and up.

Picture Books

Krull, Kathleen.  Illustrated by Yuyi Morales.  Harvesting Hope:  The Story of Cesar Chavez.   Harcourt, Inc., 2003.  ISBN: 0152014373.

The winner in the Picture Book category.  A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.  Gr. 3-6.

2004 Honor Books for Younger Children

Hopkinson, Deborah.  Illustrated by Terry Widener.  Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings.  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.  ISBN:  0689833008.

Winner of the honor books in the Picture Book category.  When Alta Weiss throws a corncob at a tomcat chasing her favorite hen, folks know one thing for sure:  She may be a girl, but she's got some arm. This is the exciting story of the pioneering female baseball player--a true American original.  Gr. K-3.

McCann, Michelle R.  Illustrated by Ann Marshall.  Luba : the Angel of Bergen-Belsen Tricycle Press, 2003. ISBN:  1582460981.

The second honored Picture Book.  A biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the winter of 1944/45.  Gr. 3 and up.

Special Commendation:

2004 Special Commendation was awarded to The Breadwinner Trilogy, three books by Deborah Ellis, published by Groundwood Books/Douglas &McIntyre.  The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey, and Mud City are connected realistic novels of children in contemporary Afghanistan, orphaned and displaced by war.  As refugees in their own ravaged country, the courageous protagonist in each story displays her own special enterprise and perseverance.

Ellis, Deborah.  The Breadwinner.   Publishers Group West, 2001.  ISBN: 0888994192.

Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Because Parvana's father foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban.  The family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.  (Also available in audiocassette.)  The Breadwinner Gr. 4-7

Ellis, Deborah.  Parvana's Journey.  Douglas & McIntyre,2002.  ISBN:  0888995148.

The second in The Breadwinner Trilogy, this international young adultbestseller, Parvana is the gripping story of a young girl's journey in search of her family, somewhere in war-ravaged Afghanistan, and of her courage and compassion in the face of many shocking hardships along the way.  Gr. 5-8.

Ellis, Deborah.  Mud City.   Douglas & McIntyre 2003.  ISBN: 0888995180.

This final book in the trilogy begun in " The Breadwinner" and "Parvana's Journey" paints a devastating portrait of life in refugee camps and shows the resourcefulness of children who endure great suffering there.  Gr. 4-7.

2004 Honor Books for Older Children

Crowe, Chris.  Getting Away with Murder:  The True Story of Emmett Till Case.  Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2003.  ISBN:  0803728042.

Honor Book for Older Children.  Using telling photographs and meticulously-researched text to rehearse the grisly and shameful 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, Till was murdered during a summer visit to Money, Mississippi.  His killers were acquitted.  Gr. 7 and up.

Hopkinson, Deborah.  Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York.   Orchard Books, 2003.  ISBN:  0439375908.

Honor Book for Older Children. Leonard Covello came to New York City from a small village in Italy in 1896. He and four other young immigrants, including Rose Cohen, who came to America from Belarus at age twelve, and Pauline Newman, who became one of the first organizers of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, are the focus of this fascinating chronicle of the pursuit of the American dream.  At turns poignant and humorous, the characters' stories unfold in chapters focusing on work, education, and other aspects of immigrant life in the tenement houses of the Lower East Side of New York City.  Gr. K-7.

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