LibGuides: Sydney Taylor Book Award: 2016

2016

Gold Medalists (Winners)

Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed by Lesléa Newman; Amy June Bates (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy NEW (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780763665555
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Composer Moshe Cotel adopts a six-toed, black-and-white kitten whom he calls Ketzel, and when he needs a piece to enter in a contest for music less than a minute long, it is Ketzel who provides the solution.

Adam and Thomas by Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey Green (Translator); Philippe Dumas (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction AP
ISBN: 9781609806347
Publication Date: 2015-10-13
Adam and Thomas, two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II, take refuge in the forest where they learn to forage and survive, soon meeting and helping other fugitives fleeing for their lives.

The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Call Number: J-Fiction SC (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780763678180
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, over the summer of 1911, pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks to travel from her Pennsylvania farm to become a hired girl in Baltimore.
The Hired Girl [OverDrive E-Book] by Laura Amy Schlitz
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780763679439
Publication Date: 2015-09-08

Hereville : how Mirka caught a fish by Barry Deutsch; Hansen Literary Agency (Other Primary Creator)
Call Number: Juv G DEU H3 (Juvenile Graphic books)
ISBN: 9781419708008
Publication Date: 2015-11-03
Mirka just wants to find new adventures, but instead she s stuck babysitting her disapproving little sister, Layele. When Mirka pushes her sister into a stream, they both get in too deep with an angry magic fish. No matter how hard Mirka fights this fish-out-of-water, it gets stronger and stronger and it s out for revenge. Mirka is in over her head, and this time, her whole family is on the line! When the fish kidnaps Layele, Mirka must find a way to save her little sister, and the clues she needs are hidden in her stepmother Fruma s past.

Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles by David A. Adler ; illustrations by Jeffrey Ebbeler
Sadic and Ori and he Blue Blanket by Jamie Korngold ; illustrations by Julie Fortenberry
The Parakeet Named Dreidel by Isaac Bashevis Singer ; illustrations by Suzanne Raphael Berkson

The Safest Lie by Angela Cerrito
Mr. Doctor : Janusz Korczak and the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto by Irene CohenJanka ; illustrations by Maurizio A. C. Quarello
Watch Out for Flying Kids : How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community by Cynthia Levinson
The Wren and the Sparrow by J. Lewis ; illustrations by Yevgenia Nayberg
The Girl in the Torch by Robert Sharenow

The Safest Lie by Angela Cerrito
Call Number: Juv F CER (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780823433100
Publication Date: 2015-07-20
A nine-year-old Jewish girl, helped by Irena Sendler and the Zegota organization, is smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto, given a new identity, and sent to live in the countryside for the duration of the World War II.

Last Night at the Circle Cinema by Emily Franklin
Courage and Defiance : Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark by Deborah Hopkinson
Imagining Katherine by Carol Solomon
Deep Sea by Annika Thor ; translated b Linda Schenek