The 2018 Upstander’s Life Time Achievement Award will be going to Caldecott Medal–winner Mordicai Gerstein Mordicai Gerstein for his long career with special thanks for his book The Boy and the Whale, which he was inspired to write when he saw a real-life video of a whale’s rescue, and the creature’s joyful dance through the […]
The 2017 Upstanders Book Award Winner is “Some Kind of Courage” by Dan Gemeinhart
The Education Department at Antioch University Los Angeles has announced its 2017 Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award winner; Some Kind of Courage, by Dan Gemeinhart. Some Kind of Courage is an historical western adventure that tells the story about a twelve-year-old who has lost his father in an accident, and his mother and his little […]
Sharon Draper Wins 2016 Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award
Sharon M. Draper novel’s, Stella by Starlight, tackles racial injustice and finds strength in unlikely places. Draper tells the tale of a young girl living in South Carolina during the Depression-era, and is the winner of Antioch University Los Angeles’ ninth annual Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award. The award is given by AULA’s Education Department and […]