Youths4Peace

2005
Jane Addams
Award Books

2005 Jane Addams Awards

Books for Older Children

Bausum,. Ann.  With courage and cloth: winning the fight for a woman's right to vote.  National Geographic Society, 2004.  ISBN:  0792269969.

Filled with detailed information and outstanding photographs, this story covers the historical events of the over 70-year women's suffrage movement, which lead to the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Gr. 6-12.

2005 Honor Books for Older Children

Ellis, Deborah.  The Heaven shop.   Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004.  ISBN: 1550419080.

An Honor Book for Older Children. Compelling and uplifting, this powerful new work by the author of The Breadwinner Trilogy is a contemporary novel that puts a very real face on the African AIDS epidemic, which to date has orphaned more than 11 million children. All royalties for this book will be donated to UNICEF.  Gr. 7-9.

Books for Younger Children

Landowne, Youme.  Sélavi, that is life: a Haitian story of hope .  Cinco Puntos Press, 2004. ISBN:  0938317849.

Sélavi, which means “that’s life,” is based on the experiences of homeless children in Haiti. Sélavi, as well as the other names in the story, represent real children. Together these children with the help of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, one of Haiti’s presidents, started a home for children called Lafanmi Sélavi, which is Creole for “the family is life,” and a radio station called Radyo Timoun (Children’s Radio).   Gr. K and up.

Honor Books for Younger Children

English, Karen.  Illustrated by Javaka Steptoe.  Hot day on Abbott Avenue.  Clarion Books, 2004.  ISBN: 0395985277.

In this realistic story about friendship, it’s a hot day and Kishi and Renee are having a fight. So they decide to spend the day ignoring each other, until they overhear their friends chant to a game of jump rope, and forget about being angry. Gr. K-3.

Hall, Bruce Edward.  Illustrated by William Low.  Henry and the Kite Dragon.  Philomel, 2004. ISBN:  0399237275.

Henry loves to help build kites with his grandfather. Flying the kites is a different story, because there’s a group of kids who keep throwing rocks at them. Based on 1920 events in New York’s Chinatown, children from two culturally diverse rival groups come to terms with a situation that requires a solution. Gr. K-4.

Rumford, James.  Sequoyah: the Cherokee man who gave his people writing.  Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004. ISBN:  0618369473.

Third honor book for children.  While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake.  Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home.  All of his work was lost, but still determined, he tried another approach.  The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read.  Gr. K-3.

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