Garden State Children's Book Award
2007 · Children's Fiction · Winner
About This Book
WINTERHOPE.
It didn't sound like much, but it was a big idea. A very big idea.
It all started when Hart Evans zinged a rubber band that hit Mr. Meinert, the chorus director. Actually, it started before that, when Mr. Meinert learned he was out of a job because the town budget couldn't afford music and art teachers. Mr. Meinert got so mad at Hart that he told the sixth graders he'd had it -- they could produce the big holiday concert on their own. Or not. It was all up to them.
What happens when a teacher steps aside and lets the kids run the show? Not what Mr. Meinert would have predicted. And not what Hart Evans would have guessed, not at all.
Out of chaos, infighting, compromise, idealism, and finally, a fragile peace, the sixth-grade choral concert was born. And they called it Winterhope.
But would it be the last holiday concert of them all?
It didn't sound like much, but it was a big idea. A very big idea.
It all started when Hart Evans zinged a rubber band that hit Mr. Meinert, the chorus director. Actually, it started before that, when Mr. Meinert learned he was out of a job because the town budget couldn't afford music and art teachers. Mr. Meinert got so mad at Hart that he told the sixth graders he'd had it -- they could produce the big holiday concert on their own. Or not. It was all up to them.
What happens when a teacher steps aside and lets the kids run the show? Not what Mr. Meinert would have predicted. And not what Hart Evans would have guessed, not at all.
Out of chaos, infighting, compromise, idealism, and finally, a fragile peace, the sixth-grade choral concert was born. And they called it Winterhope.
But would it be the last holiday concert of them all?
Awards
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award
2007 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
Massachusetts Children's Book Award
2007 · Children's Book · Nominee
Rhode Island Children's Book Award
2007 · Grades 3-6 · Nominee
Virginia Readers Choice Award
2007 · Elementary · Winner
William Allen White Childens Book Award
2007 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
Young Hoosier Book Award
2007 · Intermediate · Nominee
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award
2006 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Nevada Young Readers' Award
2006 · Young Readers · Nominee
North Carolina Children's Book Award
2006 · Junior Book · Nominee
Volunteer State Book Award
2006 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Great Stone Face Book Award
2005 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
