by Kim Bears
Leach Library

The results of the 1999 Great Stone Face Book Award is as follows:

WINNER - 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents by Lee Wardlaw - 1,160 votes;
2nd Place - SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting - 549 votes;
3rd Place - Ella Enchanted by Gail Levine - 459 votes.

Here are the remainder of the titles and number of votes cast -

The Chicken Doesn't Skate - by Gordon Korman - 398 votes;
My Life Among the Aliens by Gail Gauthier - 339 votes;
Small Steps: the Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret - 290 votes;
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - 248 votes;
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff - 218 votes;
Tracks in the Snow by Lucy Bledsoe - 213 votes;
Loses, Inc. by Claudia Mills - 204 votes;
Fire Pony by Rodman Philbrick - 194 votes;
The Broken Blade by William Durbin - 185 votes;
Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson - 170 votes;
Anastasia's Album by Hugh Brewster - 154 votes;
Memories of Anne Frank by Alison Leslie Gold - 145 votes;
Blue Sky Butterfly by Jean Van Leeuwen - 128 votes;
A Boy and His Bear by Harriet Graham - 124 votes;
Dolphin Sky by Ginny Rorby - 122 votes;
The Gentleman Outlaw and Me Eli by Mary Downing Hahn - 119 votes;
Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris - 109 votes;
Gratefully Yours by Jane Buchanan - 95 votes;
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker by Cynthia DeFelice - 94 votes;
When the Circus Came to Town by Polly Horvath - 88 votes;
Nightwalkers by Judy Morris - 84 votes;
and Going Through the Gate by Janet Anderson; 70 votes.

It was a great year for the Great Stone Face Award as 6,011 children took part in the statewide vote! Perhaps we can promote the new list even more this year and bring that number up? There's lots of great ways to promote the Great Stone Face Award...if you have a special program or a neat idea for a program to promote the Great Stone Face Award please post it to the CHILIS listserv (CHILIS-L@webster.state.nh.us) and we'll compile a sheet of ideas to include in the Great Stone Face registration packet. As always, thanks for your input!