LibGuides: Sydney Taylor Book Award: 2011

2011

Gold Medalists (Winners)

Hereville : how Mirka got her sword by Barry Deutsch; Hansen Literary Agency Staff
Call Number: Juv G DEU H1 (Juvenile graphic books)
ISBN: 9780810984226
Publication Date: 2010-11-01
Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg dreams of fighting dragons and spends her days honing her skills, even though there are no dragons in her Orthodox Jewish community, but when she accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, Mirka just might win her dragon-fighting sword after all.

The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
Call Number: YA F REI-D (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780375844553
Publication Date: 2010-09-14
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.

Modeh Ani : a good morning book by Sarah Gershman ; illustrations by Kristina Swarner
Emma's Poem : the voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser ; illustrations by Claire Nivola
Cakes and Miracles : a Purim tale by Barbara Diamond Goldin ; illustrations by Jaime Zollars

Hush [E-Book] by Eishes Chayil
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books (OverDrive Young Adult E-Book)
ISBN: 9780802722706
Publication Date: 2010-09-14
Inside the closed community of Borough Park, where most Chassidim live, the rules of life are very clear, determined by an ancient script written thousands of years before down to the last detail; and abuse has never been a part of it. But when thirteen-year-old Gittel learns of the abuse her best friend has suffered at the hands of her own family member, the adults in her community try to persuade Gittel, and themselves, that nothing happened. Forced to remain silent, Gittel begins to question everything she was raised to believe.
Once by Morris Gleitzman
Call Number: YA F GLE-M O1 (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780312653040
Publication Date: 2013-03-19
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

Engineer Ari and the Sukkah Express by Deborah Bodin Cohen ; illutsrations by Shahar Kober
Feivel's Flying Horses by Heidi Smith Hyde ; illustarations by Johanna van der Sterre
Miriam in the Desert by Jacqueline Jules ; illustrations by Natascia Ugliano
The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah by Leslie Kimmelman ; illustrations by Paul Meisel
Say Hello, Lily by Deborah Lakritz ; illustrations by Martha Avilés
Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish Chicken by Daniel Pinkwater ; illustrations by Jill Pinkwater
A Tale of Two Seders by Mindy Avra Portnoy ; illustrations by Valeria Cis
Jackie's Gift by Sharon Robinson ; illustrations by E. B. Lewis
Zishe the Strong Man by Robert Rubenstine ; illustrations by Woody Miller
Sara Finds a Mitzva by Rebeka Simhaee ; illustrations by Michael Weber
Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher by Laurel Snyder ; illustrations by David Goldin