LibGuides: Sydney Taylor Book Award: 2019

2019

Gold Medalists (Winners)

All-Of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah by Emily Jenkins; Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy JE (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399554193
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.

Sweep : the story of a girl and her monster by Jonathan Auxier
Call Number: Juv F AUX (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781683354062
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
It's been five years since the Sweep disappeared. Orphaned and alone, Nan Sparrow had no other choice but to work for a ruthless chimney sweep named Wilkie Crudd. She spends her days sweeping out chimneys. The job is dangerous and thankless, but with her wits and will, Nan has managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. When Nan gets stuck in a chimney fire, she fears the end has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself unharmed in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature—a golem—made from soot and ash. Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster. Together, these two outcasts carve out a new life—saving each other in the process.
Sweep [E-Book] : the story of a girl and her monster by Jonathan Auxier
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781683354062
Publication Date: 2018-09-25

What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
Call Number: YA F STA-V (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781524700386
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.

Through the Window : Views of Marc Chagall's Life by Barb Rosenstock, author ; Mary GrandPré, illustrator
A Moon for Moe and Mo by Jane Breskin Zalben, author ; Mehrdokht Amini, illustrator

Through the Window : views of Marc Chagall's life and art by Barb Rosenstock; Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-759.7 CHA (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781524717513
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
An expressive picture-book biography of Marc Chagall, one of the world's most renowned artists.
A Moon for Moe and Mo by Jane Breskin Zalben; Mehrdokht Amini (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy ZAL (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9781580897273
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Moses Feldman and Mohammed Hassan both live on Flatbush Avenue, but when they meet at the grocery store they quickly become best friends, sharing a picnic while their families prepare for the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan.

All Three Stooges by Perl, Erica S.
Call Number: Juv F PER (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399551758
Publication Date: 2018-01-09
While preparing for their bar mitzvahs, comedy-obsessed Noah and Dash find their friendship threatened by a personal tragedy.
The Length of a String by Weissman, Elissa Brent
Call Number: Juv F WEI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780735229471
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Call Number: YA F SOL-RL (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781481497732
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Eighteen-year-old twins Adina, a viola prodigy, and Tovah, a future surgeon, find their relationship tested when they learn that one of them will develop Huntington's, the degenerative disease ravaging their mother.

Irving Berlin : the Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing by Nancy Churnin
Write On, Irving Berlin! by Leslie Kimmelman ; illustrated by David C. Gardner
French Toast Sundays by Gloria Spielman ; illustrated by Inbal Gigi Bousidan
The Passover Parrot by Evelyn Zusman ; illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker

Anne Frank's Diary : the Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman (adaptation) ; David Lolonsky (illustrator)
12 Before 13 by Lisa Greenwald
Light the Menorah by Jacqueline Jules
The Sound of Freedom by Kathy Kacer

Anne Frank's Diary by Anne Frank (Text by); David Polonsky (Illustrator); Ari Folman (Adapted by)
Call Number: Juv B FRA (Juvenile Biography)
ISBN: 9781101871799
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
The only graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank's diary authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation using text from the diary to introduce a new generation of young readers to a Holocaust classic.