1972–1973 Mark Twain Awards

	1972–1973 Mark Twain Awards The Mark Twain Readers Award is given annually to a book for children in grades four through six. Winner Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien Nominations '' The King's Fountain'' by Lloyd Alexander ''Goody Hall'' by Natalie Babbitt ''Feldman Fieldmouse'' by Nathaniel Benchley ''Joseph, The Dreamer'' by Clyde Robert Bulla ''A Room Made of Windows'' by Eleanor Cameron ''The Spider, The Cave and the Pottery Bowl'' by Eleanor Clymer ''Jingo Django'' by Sid Fleischman ''All Upon a Stone'' by Jean Craighead George ''The Planet of Junior Brown'' by Virginia Hamilton ''The Trees Stand Shining'' by Hettie Jones ''The Tombs of Atuan'' by Ursula K. Le Guin ''Kate'' by Jean Little '' Annie and the Old One'' by Miska Miles ''The Vicksburg Veteran'' by F. N. Monjo ''Deep Trouble'' by Walt Morey ''The Almost Year'' by Florence Randall ''The Bear's House'' by Marilyn Sachs '' The Headless Cupid'' by Zilpha Snyder ''By the Highway Home'' by Mary Stolz ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mark Twain Readers Award The Mark Twain Readers Award, or simply Mark Twain Award, is a children's book award which annually recognizes one book selected by vote of Missouri schoolchildren from a list prepared by librarians and volunteer readers. It is now one of four Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Readers Awards and is associated with school grades 4 to 6; the other MASL Readers Awards were inaugurated from 1995 to 2009 and are associated with grades K–3, 6–8, 9–12 and nonfiction. The 1970 Newbery Medal winning book '' Sounder'', by William H. Armstrong, was the inaugural winner of the Mark Twain Award in 1972. Peg Kehret has won the Mark Twain Award four times, once in 1999 for '' Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio'', a memoir of her childhood, and three times in six years from 2007 to 2012 for novels. Nomination guidelines * Books should interest children in grades four through six. * Books should be an original work written by an author living in the United States. * Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hettie Jones Hettie Jones (née Cohen; born in 1934) is an American poet. She has written twenty-three books that include a memoir of the Beat Generation, three volumes of poetry, and publications for children and young adults, including ''The Trees Stand Shining'' and ''Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music''. Early life Hettie Jones was born Hettie Cohen on June 15, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family. She entered Mary Washington College in Virginia in 1952. She had not traveled far from her home until college, and had not experienced anti-semitism up until that time: "The roommates didn't want to live with me because I was a Jew." Career After graduating from college and returning to New York, Jones married LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), an African-American writer. Her family initially disowned her for marrying a black man, but her husband's family was welcoming. Despite living in the diverse Lower East Side of Manhattan, they were sometimes harasse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mary Stolz Mary Stolz (born Mary Slattery, March 24, 1920 – December 15, 2006) was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults. She received the 1953 Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award for ''In a Mirror,'' Newbery Honors in 1962 for ''Belling the Tiger'' and 1966 for ''The Noonday Friends'', and her entire body of work was awarded the George G. Stone Recognition of Merit in 1982. Her literary works range from picture books to young-adult novels. Although most of Stolz's works are fiction books, she made a few contributions to magazines such as ''Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal'', and ''Seventeen''. Biography Early life Mary Slattery was born on March 24, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts. Raised in Manhattan, she attended the Birch Wathen School and served as assistant editor of her school magazine, ''Birch Leaves''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zilpha Snyder Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, 1927 – October 7, 2014) was an American author of books for children and young adults. Three of Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: ''The Egypt Game'', '' The Headless Cupid'' and '' The Witches of Worm''. She was most famous for writing adventure stories and fantasies. Biography Snyder earned a BA from Whittier College in 1948, and also attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1958-60. Her obituary in ''The Washington Post'' notes, ''"Mrs. Snyder displayed almost uncanny insight into the intellectual, emotional and imaginative lives of boys and girls, a perspective gained in part through her years as a schoolteacher"'', noting that while she accompanied her husband "on his careers in the military and in music, she taught at schools in New York, Washington State, Alaska and California." After they settled in Berkeley, she taught the upper grades of elementary school. She began writing fiction in the 1960s and worked with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]