2005 Great Lakes Book Award Finalists Announced
The following books have been named as finalists for the 2005 Great Lakes Book Awards.
The winners will be announced in late August. Children's Books
The Bird in Santa’s Beard, Jeffery L. Schatzer, Mitten Press, Ann Arbor Media Group
Bucking the Sarge, Christopher Paul Curtis, Wendy Lamb Books, Random House
Clever Beatrice and the Best Little Pony, Margaret Willey, Atheneum, Simon & Schuster
Friend on Freedom River, Gloria Whelan, Sleeping Bear Press
Getting in the Game, Dawn Fitzgerald, Roaring Brook Press, Holtzbrinck Publishers
Win One for the Gipper, Kathy-jo Wargin, Sleeping Bear Press Fiction
At the Shores, Thomas Rogers, Handsel Books, Other Press
The Bright Forever, Lee Martin, Shaye Areheart Books, Random House
The Circus in Winter, Cathy Day, Harcourt
How Like an Angel, Jack Driscoll, Sweetwater Fiction, University of Michigan Press
The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle, Viking, Penguin Group
An Unfinished Season, Ward S. Just, Houghton Mifflin General
American Dream, Jason DeParle, Viking, Penguin Group
Arc of Justice, Kevin Boyle, Henry Holt & Co.
Bound for Canaan, Fergus M. Bordewich, Amistad Press, Harper Collins Publishers
Grit, Noise and Revolution, David A. Carson, University of Michigan Press
Skirting the Issue, Judith Vale Newton and Carol Ann Weiss, Indiana Historical Society Press Mystery / Intrigue
Cast of Shadows, Kevin Guilfoile, Knopf, Random House
Fire Point, John Smolens, Shaye Areheart Books, Random House
Hidden, Paul Jaskunas, Free Press, Simon & Schuster
Lost Souls, Michael Collins, Viking, Penguin Group
The Narcissist’s Daughter, Craig Holden, Simon & Schuster
Tonight I Said Goodbye, Michael Koryta, Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s
Past Great Lakes Book Awards Winners 2004
Fiction: Ursula, Under, Ingrid Hill, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
General: One Man’s Castle, Phyllis Vine, Amistad/Harper Collins
Children’s Picture Book: Boxes for Katje, Candace Fleming, illustrated by Stacey Dressen-McQueen, Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus & Giroux
Children’s Chapter Book: Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett, Scholastic, Inc. 2003
Fiction Award : Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, Farrar Straus & Giroux
General Book Award: To Conquer the Air, James Tobin, Simon & Schuster Inc.
Children’s Award: Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by Terry Widener, Simon & Schuster Children's 2002
Fiction: The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer, Knopf
General: Lake Effect by Rich Cohen, Knopf
Children’s Medal Winner: Fair Weather by Richard Peck, Dial Press
Children’s Honor Book: The Shoe Tree of Chagrin by J. Patrick Lewis,
illustrated by Chris Sheban, Creative Editions 2001
Children’s: The Journey, Sarah Stewart, illus. David Small
Fiction: Hatbox Baby, Carrie Brown
General: Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off With Chrysler, Bill Vlasic & Bradley Stertz
Voice of the Heartland: Indiana University Press
2000
Children’s: Barn Burner, Patricia Willis
Fiction: Midnight Champagne, A. Manette Ansay
General: Bodies in Motion and at Rest, Thomas Lynch
1999
Children’s: Legend of Mackinac Island, Kathy-Jo Wargin & Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
Fiction: Four Corners of Nights, Craig Holden
Nonfiction: The Other Side of the River, Alex Kotlowitz
General: Places of Grace, Gary Irving & Michal Strutin
1998
Children’s: The Broken Blade, William Durbin
Fiction: Dewey Defeats Truman, Thomas Mellan
General: The Haygoods of Columbus, Wil Haygood
Voice of the Heartland: Studs Terkel
1997
Children’s: Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution, Jerry Stanley
Fiction: Read This and Tell Me What it Says, A. Manette Ansay
General: City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, Donald L. Miller
1996
Children’s: Once on This Island, Gloria Whelan
General: Writing from the Center, Scott Russell Sanders
History & Culture: Superior: Journeys on an Inland Sea, Gary & Joanie McGuffin
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