168 Children’s literature The Nineties in America
Selected American and Canadian Children’s Literature, 1990-1999Year Title Author/Illustrator
1990 Stonewords: A Ghost Story Pam Conrad
Chain of Fire Beverly Naidoo; illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Saturnalia Paul Fleischman
Tug of War Joan Lingard
Redwork Michael Bedard
Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi; illustrated by Ruth E. Murray
1991 The China Year Emily Cheney Neville
Year of Impossible Goodbyes Sook Nyul Choi
Mama Let’s Dance Patricia Hermes
Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Eating Between the Lines Kevin Major
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane Russell Freedman
1992 A Prairie Alphabet Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet; art by Yvette Moore
Missing May Cynthia Ryland
Ticket to Curlew Celia Baker Lottridge; illustrated by Wendy
Wolsak-Frith
What Hearts Bruce Brooks
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Patricia McKissack; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Somewhere in the Darkness Walter Dean Myers
1993 Grandfather’s Journey Allen Say
Flight of the Dragon Kyn Susan Fletcher
For the Life of Laetitia Merle Hodge
The Giver Lois Lowry
Some of the Kinder Planets Tim Wynne-Jones
Crazy Lady Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon’s Gate Laurence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Russell Freedman
1994 Jacob and the Stranger Sally Derby; illustrated by Leonid Gore
Seven Spiders Spinning Gregory Maguire; illustrated by Dick Zimmer
Flour Babies Anne Fine
Cezanne Pinto Mary Stolz
Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech
Summer of the Mad Monk Cora Taylor
Catherine, Called Birdy Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Nancy Farmer