Latest Rendition
The 24th annual Phoenix Award was presented June 16, 2012, at the ChLA Conference, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 2012
Karen Hesse, Letters from Rifka (Henry Holt and Company, 1992)
- Honor Book: Michael Dorris, Morning Girl (Hyperion Books, 1992)
- Honor Book: Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti (Orchard Books, 1992)
Letters from Rifka is a historical novel based partly on the experiences of the author's great-aunt. It features a 12-year-old Jewish girl and her family, first in Russia and then in 1919–1920 flight to America.
Morning Girl is set in pre-Columbian America; twenty years ago it won the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction. Taste of Salt is set in Haiti during the democracy movement led by Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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