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 Young Adult Winner: Simon Says—Molly Levite Griffis— Eakin Press,
Austin, TX—Simon Says is the third title in Griffis’s World War II home front trilogy, which began with The Rachel Resistance and continued with The Feester Filibuster. In the final chapter, the author takes us
back to Apache, Oklahoma, to tell the poignant story of an uprooted Jewish boy who loses his identity but holds on to his life. The Rachel Resistance received the 2002 Oklahoma Book Award. Griffis lives with
her husband in Norman, Oklahoma.
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