Farrar, Straus & Giroux
for The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto (Tokyo, Japan), 1996. Translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano
About
The Friends tells the story of three sixth-grade friends who spend their spare time spying on an elderly neighbor, whom they expect to die. Instead, he comes to life as a new friend who helps them make the transition from childhood to young adulthood.
Awards Won
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Mildred L. Batchelder Award
This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
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1997 - Winner(s) |
