Showing 1–7 of 7 titles

• Award year: 1998
• Genre: General Fiction

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  The Gardener

  By Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator)

  Illustrations, combined with letters home, tell the story of Lydia Grace Finch, a young Depression-era heroine, who transforms her curmudgeonly uncle and his dreary urban neighborhood with her rooftop garden.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
  • Younger
  • ISBN: 9780374325176
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  Nero Corleone: A Cat's Story

  By Elke Heidenrich, Doris Orgel (Translator)

  A bold and self-serving tom cat reigns supreme both in the farmyard in Italy where he was born and later in the comfortable home in Germany to which a vacationing couple takes him and his helpless sister.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1998 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780670873951
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  Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida

  By Victor Martinez

  Poetic, moving, and harrowing, these vignettes paint a realistic portrait of a Chicano boy's coming of age in Fresno, California. Graphic realism and lyrical imagery highlight not only familial and societal tensions, but also unexpected moments of humor, insight, and tenderness.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Pura Belpré Children's Author Award 1998 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780060267049
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  The Robber and Me

  By Josef Holub, Elizabeth D. Crawford (Translator)

  Here begins the story of Boniface, who lands in a remote corner of the forest, in the god-forsaken village of Graab, where he makes the acquaintance of Robber Knapp.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1998 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780805055993
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  Snapshots from the Wedding

  By Gary Soto, Stephanie Garcia (Illustrator)

  Maya, the flower girl, is busy snapping pictures at this lively Mexican American wedding. She captures the groom with his arm in a cast due to a softball accident, the bride with gifts of money pinned to her dress, the mariachis with their instruments, and the younger guests playing in their dress-up clothes.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Award 1998 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780399228087
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  There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

  By Simms Taback

  The popular American folk song of the old woman with an insatiable taste for life is served up in a fresh presentation. The reader is treated to an insider's view of her progressively excessive appetite through expanding die-cut peepholes to the in evi table climax.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
  • Younger
  • ISBN: 9780670869398
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  Wringer

  By Jerry Spinelli

  Palmer LaRue dreads his approaching birthday because he does not want to be a wringer, one of the ten-year-old boys who breaks the necks of pigeons wounded at the town's pigeon shoot fund-raiser. When his three bullying friends suspect he is sheltering a stray pigeon, Palmer decides to take a personal stand against this annual rite of passage.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
  • Middle, Older
  • ISBN: (0-06-024913-7)