PinC Member Wins William Allen White
Airball: My Life in Briefs, a middle-grade novel by Partners in Crime member L.D. (Lisa) Harkrader, has won this year’s William Allen White Award for 6th–8th graders.
Established in 1952 to honor the memory of renowned Emporia newspaper editor William Allen White, the White Awards program is the nation’s first statewide reader’s choice award. It is directed by Emporia State University. This year, over 50,000 Kansas students cast votes to select the winning books. A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray, by Ann M. Martin, won the award in the 3rd–5th grade category.
The awards will be presented at the 56th annual William Allen White Children’s Book Awards ceremony Saturday, October 4, 2008, at William Lindsay White Auditorium in Emporia. The event caps two days of activities ranging from author autographs to story telling, attracting school children from across Kansas.
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