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2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Announced

The winners of this year's Horn Book Awards for kid lit and YA!

Kristy Pasquariello Jun 6, 2016

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Kristy Pasquariello

Staff Writer

Kristy Pasquariello loves Little Women and Doctor Who with equal fervor. A children’s librarian and former (recovering) archivist, Kristy lives in a tiny town outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with two kids, two cats, one husband and a gazillion books. When she’s not singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider to a group of babies (#bestjobever), Kristy writes reviews for children’s books at the Horn Book Guide and School Library Journal. For a list of book prescriptions, check out her blog at librarydose.wordpress.com. Twitter: @kristysp

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The 2016 Boston Globe – Horn Book Award winners were announced Thursday, June 2 . A prestigious honor in the worlds of KidLit and Young Adult Literature, these awards are chosen annually by an independent panel of three judges picked by Horn Book Magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Sutton. The awards, which were first given in 1967, honor and recognize excellence in writing for children and young adults. The Horn Book Magazine was created in 1924 to celebrate the best in children’s literature.

One winner and two honor books were named in the following categories:

Non-Fiction

Honor Books

SymphonyCityDead Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dimitri Shostokovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson.