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2007 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
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Children/Young Adults
Chuck’s Truck—Peggy Perry Anderson—published by Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, Boston, MA
Golden—Jennifer Lynn Barnes—published by Random House Children’s Books, New York, NY
Trash—Sharon Darrow—published by Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA
Paradise on the Prairie—Molly Levite Griffis—published by Eakin Press, Austin, TX
H is for Honor: A Military Family Alphabet—Devin Scillian—published by Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI
Knights of the Hill Country—Tim Tharp—published by Random House Children’s Books, New York, NY
Crossing Bok Chitto—Tim Tingle—published by Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX
Poetry
Cosmic Rainbow: New and Collected Poems—Mary McAnally—published by Partisan Press, Norfolk, VA
The Fork-In-The-Road Indian Poetry Store—Phillip Carroll
Morgan—published by Salt Publishing, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Travels Through Enchanted Woods—Carl Sennhenn—published
by Village Books Press, Cheyenne, OK
Native Son: American Poems from the Heart of Oklahoma—Ron Wallace—published by TJMF Publishing, Clarksville, IN
Non-fiction
Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency—Michael Blake—published by Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ
Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, Fourth Edition—Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble—published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
Mr. Ambassador: Warrier for Peace—Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley—published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town—John Grisham—published by Doubleday/Random House Inc. New York, NY
Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story—Betty Grant Henshaw—published by Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX
White Man’s Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains— Stan Hoig—published by University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste—Joni L. Kinsey—published by University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
OKC: Second Time Around—Steve Lackmeyer and Jack Money—published by Full Circle Press, Oklahoma City, OK
From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt:The Colors of Oklahoma Music—John Wooley—published by Hawk Publishing Group, Tulsa, OK
Design and Illustration
OKC: Second Time Around—Design by Carl Brune—published by Full Circle Press, Oklahoma City, OK
Crossing Bok Chitto—Illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges—published by Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX
Chickasaw: Unconquerable and Unconquered—Photography by David Fitzgerald—published by Chickasaw Press, Ada, OK
The Gold Miner’s Daughter—Illustrated by Jon Goodell—published by Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta, Ga
You Know We Belong to the Land: The Centennial History of Oklahoma—Design by Skip McKinstry—published by Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma City, OK
Fiction
Black Silk Handkerchief—D. L. Birchfield—published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
Everlasting—Carol Johnson—published by Hawk Publishing Group, Tulsa, OK
Magic Time—Doug Marlette—published by Sara Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY
The Piano Man—Marcia Preston—published by Mira Books, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush—Sheldon Russell—published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
The Limehouse Text—Will Thomas—published by Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, New York, NY
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to
promote the work of Oklahoma authors,
to promote the
literary heritage of the state, and
to encourage reading
for pleasure by Oklahomans of all ages.
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