LibGuides: Sydney Taylor Book Award: 2017

2017

Gold Medalists (Winners)

I Dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark by Debbie Levy; Elizabeth Baddeley (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-347.73 LEV (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781481465595
Publication Date: 2016-09-20
A biographical picture book about Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Inquisitor's Tale [OverDrive E-Book] : or, The three magical children and their holy dog by Adam Gidwitz
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781101612606
Publication Date: 2016
On a dark night, travelers from across France cross paths at an inn and begin to tell stories of three children. Their adventures take them on a chase through France: they are taken captive by knights, sit alongside a king, and save the land from a farting dragon. On the run to escape prejudice and persecution and save precious and holy texts from being burned, their quest drives them forward to a final showdown at Mont Saint-Michel, where all will come to question if these children can perform the miracles of saints. Join William, an oblate on a mission from his monastery; Jacob, a Jewish boy who has fled his burning village; and Jeanne, a peasant girl who hides her prophetic visions. They are accompanied by Jeanne's loyal greyhound, Gwenforte . . . recently brought back from the dead.

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
Call Number: YA F SAV-G (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780606398763
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
When her university professor father is sent by the Gestapo to a concentration camp, seven-year-old Anna travels the Polish countryside with the mysterious Swallow Man during World War II.

A Hat for Mrs. Goldman : a Story About Knitting and Love by Michelle Edwards, author ; G. Brian Karas, illustrator
Fascinating : the Life of Leonard Nimoy by Richard Michelson, author ; Edel Rodriguez, illustrator

Dreidels on the Brain by Joel Izzy
A Poem for Peter : the Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day by Andrea Davis Pinkney, author ; Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, illustrators

A Poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day by Andrea Davis Pinkney, author ; Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher, illustrators
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780425287705
Publication Date: 2016
A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA and Marvel comics. But it was many years before Keats's greatest dream was realized and he had the opportunity to write and illustrate his own book. For more than two decades, Ezra had kept pinned to his wall a series of photographs of an adorable African American child. In Keats's hands, the boy morphed into Peter, a boy in a red snowsuit, out enjoying the pristine snow; the book became The Snowy Day, winner of the Caldecott Medal, the first mainstream book to feature an African American child.

The Sundown Kid : a Southwestern Shabbat by Barbaa Bietz ; illustrated by John Kanzler
On One Foot by Linda Glaser ; illustrations by Nuria Balaguer
The Tree in the Courtyard : Looking Through Anne Frank's Window by Jeff Gottesfeld ; illustrated by Peter McCarty
Gabriel's Horn by Eric Kimmel ; illustrations by Maria Surducan
Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup by Pamela Mayer ; illustrated by Deborah Melmon
Not This Turkey! by Jessica Steinberg ; illustrated by Amanda Pike

The Ship to Nowhere : On Board the Exodu by Rona Arato
Irena's Children : Young Readers Edition : a True Story of Courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo ; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
The Bicycle Spy by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Skating with the Statue of Liberty

The Bicycle Spy by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Call Number: J-Fiction MC (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780545850957
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in possession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.

Skating with the Statue of Liberty by Susan Lynn Meyer
Call Number: J-Paperback "M" (Juvenile Paperbacks)
ISBN: 9780307929556
Publication Date: 2017-04-11
After having escaped with his family from Nazi-occupied France, Gustave finds a home in New York City but is still worried about Marcel, his good friend whom he left behind, and is surprised to find bigotry in America, too.

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