![]() ![]() ![]() "It's a story of kids taking matters into their own hands," Korman says. ![]() "Swindle," selected by voters in Grades 3 through 5, is the story of sixth-grader Griffin Bing, who puts together a band of misfits to get justice after an unscrupulous collector swindles Griffin out of a valuable Babe Ruth baseball card. One of the few literary awards that asks young readers to choose the winners, the program is directed by Emporia State University and supported in part by the Trusler Foundation.īoth authors have been invited to the awards celebration, set for Saturday, Sept. The William Allen White Children's Book Award program was founded in 1952 by Ruth Garver Gagliardo, a specialist in children's literature for Emporia State University. Both titles are published by Scholastic Books. ![]() "Swindle" by Gordon Korman and "The Boy Who Dared: A Novel Based on the True Story of Hitler Youth" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti are the recipients of the 2011 William Allen White Children's Book Awards. EMPORIA, KS ()(readMedia)- Two books about young boys making extraordinary decisions have been judged the best by Kansas schoolchildren. ![]()
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