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April 30, 2008
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards

I love seeing who has won the Jane Addam's Children's Book Awards because the focus of the award is so near and dear to me.   Books on the list "effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence."

Here are the 2008 Winners:

 

The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCully.

We Are One:  The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimmer.

And the honors:

One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge.

Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins.

Eljah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis.

Birmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston Weatherford.

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