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Sydney Taylor Book Award 2014

The 2014 Sydney Taylor Book Award went to The Blessing Cup by Patricia Polacco (Middle Grade), The Longest Night: A Passover Story by Laurel Snyder (Picture Book) and The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb (Young Adult). 6 books were Honor Books across 3 categories.

Winners

Middle Grade

  1. The Blessing Cup by Patricia Polaccosource (opens in a new tab)

Picture Book

  1. The Longest Night: A Passover Story by Laurel Snydersource (opens in a new tab)

Young Adult

  1. The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascombsource (opens in a new tab)

Honor Books

Middle Grade

  1. Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948 by Carol Matassource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leysonsource (opens in a new tab)

Picture Book

  1. Rifka Takes a Bow by Betty Rosenberg Perlovsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Stones for Grandpa by Renee Londnersource (opens in a new tab)

Young Adult

  1. Dancing in the Dark by Robyn Bavatisource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax, translated by Laura Watkinsonsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Sydney Taylor Book Award

Gold medal winners and silver Honor Books from AJL's list of all Sydney Taylor Book Award winners, honors and notables. Year is the award year AJL prints, announced each January for books published the prior year. Categories use AJL's current names: Picture Book, Middle Grade and Young Adult, called Younger Readers, Older Readers and Teen Readers before 2020. The teen category began in 2007, so 2006 has two categories. Notable Books and the Body-of-Work Award are excluded. Author fields name the writer, not the illustrator.

Organization: Association of Jewish Libraries. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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