The Ornament Tree

Award: 
Best Books for Young Adults
Year this Award was Won: 
1 997
Press release title and URL: 
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/1997bestbook…
Award Win Active Date: 
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 19:00
Defunct Winner UID: 
2 845
Winner Rank: 
SLCT
Sort field for winners: 
Ornament Tree
Winner Description: 
by Jean Thesman. Houghton Mifflin Co.
Winner Blurb: 

When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there. Bonnie Shaster, fourteen and recently orphaned, arrives at her cousin Audra's Seattle boarding house in 1918 and struggles to find her place among a disorderly group of progressive ladies and outspoken gentlemen boarders, among them a handsome but embittered young man blinded in the Great War.

Title of a book, article or other published item (this will display to the public): 
The Ornament Tree
ISBN of the winning item: 
0395742781
What type of media is this winner?: 
Book
Winner Detail Create Date: 
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 10:51
Winner Detail Change Date: 
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 10:51
Winner Detail Change ID: 
201
Winner Type: 
PTMD
Award Winner Category (start typing): 
Fiction