School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids’ Books is a competition
among 16 of the very best books for young people of the year, judged by
some of the biggest names in children’s books.
Endangered vs. Three Times Lucky
Judge: Kathi Appelt
Winner: Endangered
Endangered
By Eliot Schrefer
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
(Young adult fiction)
Three Times Lucky
By Sheila Turnage
Endangered
By Eliot Schrefer
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
(Young adult fiction)
Three Times Lucky
By Sheila Turnage
Washed
ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now
eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac
Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana,
seems implicated in a murder.
The Fault in Our Stars vs. Temple Grandin
Judge: Deb Caletti
Winner: The Fault in Our Stars
By John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle
that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but
terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a
gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid
Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
(Young adult fiction)
By Sy Montgomery
An authorized portrait about Grandin's life with autism and her groundbreaking work as a scientist and designer of cruelty-free livestock facilities describes how she overcame key disabilities through education and the support of her mother.
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