Youths4Peace

2006
Jane Addams
Award Books

2006 Jane Addams Awards

Award Book for Older Children

Blumenthal, Karen.  Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America.   Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.  ISBN:  0689859570.

Of course they can...today!  But just a few decades ago, opportunities for girls were far more limited, not because they weren't capable of playing or didn't want to become doctors or lawyers, but because they weren't allowed to. Then quietly, in 1972, something momentous happened:  Congress passed a law called "Title IX," forever changing the lives of American girls.  Gr. 7 and up.

 Honor Book for Older Children

Carvell, Marlene. Sweetgrass Basket. Dutton Childrens Books, 2005.  ISBN:  0525475478.

In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native Americans, as they try to assimilate into white culture and one of them is falsely accused of stealing.  Gr. 3-7.

Porter, Pamela.The Crazy Man. Groundwood, 2006.  ISBN: 0888996950.

The Crazy Man intertwines the emotional lives of an injured girl, a dazed mother, a runaway father, and a mental patient. Spare free verse narration of twelve-year-old Emaline tells a story in which everyone is challenged to change in this 1960’s Saskatchewan community.  Porter touchingly captures both the wide, lonely prairies and the closed minds central to the tension in this book.  Gr. 4-7.

 Award Book for Younger Children

Haskins, James. Illustrated by Benny Andrews. Delivering justice : W.W. Law and the fight for civil rights. Illustrated by Benny Andrews. Candlewick Press, 2005. ISBN: 0763625922.

This 2006 Jane Addams medal winner is a biographical book on Wesley Wallace Law, who was better known by the townspeople of his day as W. W.  Orchestrating the Great Savannah boycott in 1961, he became known as the Savannah hero for African Americans in Savannah, Georgia.   His character is best portrayed through his love for humanity by his persistence to bring equality to his Georgia community.  Gr. K-3.

Honor Book for Younger Children

Alarcón, Francisco X. Illustrations by Paula Barragán.Poems to dream together = Poemas para soñar juntos.   Lee & Low Books, 2005.  ISBN: 158430233X.

This set of seventeen bilingual poems, following themes of education, ecology and peace and written in English and Spanish, celebrate the powerful connections children share with their families, communities, and all living things.  Gr. 2-7.

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