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Wolf Hollow is a young adult novel written by Lauren Wolk, published by Dutton Children's Books in 2016. It is set in rural western Pennsylvania during the autumn of 1943 and describes how the protagonist, Annabelle "learned how to lie" and "that what I said and what I did mattered" in relation to two interlopers in her life: the bully Betty Glengarry, and the mysterious drifter Toby.
Lauren Wolk is an American author, poet and editor. Born in Baltimore, she studied English literature at Brown University graduating in 1981.. Wolk won a Newbery Honor in 2017 for her novel Wolf Hollow and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2018 for Beyond the Bright Sea.
General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery Fiction is a category presented 1961 onwards at the Edgar Awards (commonly known as the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe. The awards are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America [ 1 ] and they remain the most prestigious awards in the mystery genre.
The Newbery was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1921, making it the first children's book award in the world. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] : 1 The physical bronze medal was designed by Rene Paul Chambellan and is given to the winning author at the next ALA annual conference.
She has written 28 books in all, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. In 2009, her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. [5] In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Round House. [6]
Award winners and finalists, 1996, 1999 Year Book Author Illustrator Result Ref. 1996 Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales: Virginia Hamilton: Leo and Diane Dillon: Winner [1] 1999 Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color: Patricia McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack Jr. James E. Ransome: Winner
Jon Klassen CM (born November 29, 1981) [1] is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 picture book This Is Not My Hat, which he also wrote.