LibGuides: Sydney Taylor Book Award: 2018

2018

Gold Medalists (Winners)

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Call Number: Fiction N576r (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780802126399
Publication Date: 2017-02-07
A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe; Lilit Thwaites (Translator)
Call Number: YA B KRA-D (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781627796187
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz. Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.

Yaffa and Fatima : Shalom, Salaam by Fawzia Gilani-WIlliams, author ; Chiara Fedele, illustrator
Drop by Drop : a Story of Rabbi Akiva by Jacqueline Jules, author ; Yevgenia Nayberg, illustrator

Yaffa and Fatima by Gilani-Williams, Fawzia ; Chiara Fedele (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy GIL (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9781467789387
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Yaffa and Fatima live on neighboring date farms. When very little rain leads to a poor harvest, both women go to extra measures to make sure that their neighbor doesn't go hungry
Drop by Drop by Jacqueline Jules; Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy JUL (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9781512420913
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
With his wife's encouragement, a shepherd learns to read at age 40 and eventually becomes one of the greatest sages in Jewish history.

This Is Just a Test by Rosenberg, Madelyn ; Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Call Number: Juv F ROS (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781338037722
Publication Date: 2017-06-27
In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
The Six-Day Hero by Tammar Stein
Call Number: J-Fiction ST (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781512458718
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Twelve-year-old Motti discovers that there are many types of heroes as his tiny young nation of Israel fights for survival in the Six-Day War of 1967.

To Look a Nazi in the Eye : a Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial by Kacer Kathy with Jordana Lebowitz
Almost Autumn by Marianne Kaurin
The Girl With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780807529355
Publication Date: 2017
When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall, but even to the balloon makers, Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything, including her only way home, to stop the process.

Yom Kippur Shortstop by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Andre Ceolin
Under the Sabbath Lamp by Michael Herman ; illustrated by Alida Massari
Big Sam : a Rosh Hashanah Tall Tale by Eric A. Kimmel ; illustrated by Jim Starr
The Knish War on Rivington Street by Joanne Oppenheim ; illustrated by Jon Davis
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the Case of R. B. G. vs. Inequality by Jonah Winter ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst

Hedy's Journey : the True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust by Michelle Bisson ; illustrated by El primo Ramón
The Children of Willesden Lane : a True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II : Young Reader's Edition by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen ; adapted by Emil Sher
Wordwings by Sydelle Pearl
The Dollmaker of Krakow by R. M. Romero