Teen Read Week Trivia Question #1
Why can’t J.K. Rowling or Anthony Horowitz win the Newbery Award for one of their books?
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on October 17th, 2006 at 7:20 am
The harry potter books and the Alex Rider books haven’t ended, they are still going on, so, I don’t think a newberry award can be given to an unfinished story.
on October 17th, 2006 at 8:01 am
Good guess, but not quite. I’m going to leave the question running until someone gets it right.
on October 17th, 2006 at 11:40 am
They can’t win because they are not American authors and the Newberry Award is awarded throught the American Library Association.
on October 17th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Close enough, Alyssa. It’s not exactly that the authors aren’t American, but that their books are published somewhere else (i.e England) first.
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on October 17th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
they are a series.
on October 17th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Many groups don’t like the ideas of these novels, such as witchcraft and wizardry, and think it’s against their beliefs and believe kids shouldn’t be reading them. These books are controversial and they don’t give awards to controversial books.