Julia Ward Howe Awards 2020
-for books published in 2019-
Fiction — Winners
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The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman (Simon and Schuster)
Fiction — Finalists
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Bunny by Mona Awad (Penguin/Viking)
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The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer (Back Bay/Little Brown)
Non-Fiction — Winner
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Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth (WW Norton)
Non-Fiction — Finalists
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The Club by Leo Damrosch (Yale)
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Seeing Trees by Sonja Dumpelmann (Yale)
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American Radicals by Holly Jackson (Crown/Penguin)
Non-Fiction — Honorable Mention
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The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten by Joan Wheelis (WW Norton)
Poetry — Winner
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Tap Out by Edgar Kunz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Poetry — Finalist
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Even the Dark by Leslie Williams (Southern IL University Press)
Young Readers — Winner
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16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Lisa Rogers (Schwartz & Wade/Penguin)
Young Readers — Finalists
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Tiny Feet Between the Mountains by Hanna Cha (Simon & Schuster)
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What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett (Beach Lane)
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Ruby in the Sky by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo (Farrar Strauss Giroux)
2020 Discovery Awards
First Place ~~ Mona Baloch for Inaya and the Moon
Second Place ~~ Cathy Stenquist for I Wish I Were
Third Place ~~ Amy Benoit and Sue Lovejoy for Perfect Pirates
Honorable Mention ~~ Mary E. Cronin for Like a Mother Bear:
Jeanne Manford Stands Up for Gay Kids
Honorable Mention ~~ Gayle Stern for Kite’s Unexpected Flight