2015 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
Children/Young Adult
Some Assembly Required—Arin Andrews—Simon & Schuster
C is for Chickasaw—Wiley Barnes—Chickasaw Press
The Black Sentry—William Bernhardt—Babylon Books
Finders Keepers—Roy Deering—RoadRunner Press
Rethinking Normal—Katie Rain Hill—Simon & Schuster
George Ferris: What a Wheel—Barbara Lowell—Penguin
Chukfi Rabbit’s Big, Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale—Greg Rodgers—Cinco Puntos Press
Design/Illustration/Photography
Chikasha: The Chickasaw Collection at the National Museum of the American Indian—photography by Matt Bradbury and Mike McKee, and book design by Corey Fetters—Chickasaw Press
Capturing the Spirit in Bronze: The Journey and Sculptures of Rosalind Cook—book design by Patricia Ridge Bradley—Rosalind Cook Studio
Art of the Oklahoma Judicial Center—book design and photography by Neil Chapman—Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Extraordinary Jane—illustrated by Hannah E. Harrison—Penguin
C is for Chickasaw—illustrated by Aaron Long—Chickasaw Press
A Legacy in Arms—book design by Julie Rushing and jacket design by Anthony Roberts—University of Oklahoma Press
The Early Chickasaw Homeland—cover and book design by Aaron Long—Chickasaw Press
Chukfi Rabbit’s Big, Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale—illustrated by Leslie Stall Widener—Cinco Puntos Press
Fiction
Popsicle Styx—John T. Biggs—Pen-L Publishing
Hell with the Lid Blown Off—Donis Casey—Poisoned Pen Press
Jingo Street—Sharon Ervin—Oak Tree Press
Her Innocent War—Betty C. Hatcher—Frugal Press
Sinking Suspicions—Sara Sue Hoklotubbe—University of Arizona Press
The Hatmaker’s Heart—Carla Stewart—Faith Words Press
House of Purple Cedar—Tim Tingle—Cinco Puntos Press
Fatal Enquiry—Will Thomas—Minotaur Books
Non-fiction
The Nicest Nazi: Childhood Memories of World War II—Christiane Brandt Faris—Ionic Press
Black Cat 2-1: The True Story of a Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and His Crew—Bob Ford—Brown Books Publishing Group
Oklahoma’s Most Notorious Cases—Kent Frates—RoadRunner Press
Port Robertson: Behind the Scenes of Sooner Sports—Edgar L. Frost—Oklahoma Heritage Association
Chikasha: The Chickasaw Collection at the National Museum of the American Indian—Joshua Hinson—Chickasaw Press
Father of Route 66: The Story of Cy Avery—Susan Croce Kelly—University of Oklahoma Press
Piavinnia: The Bent-Guerrier Connection—Jo Ann Kessel—Oklahoma Heritage Association
A Step Toward Brown v. Board of Education: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and her Fight to End Segregation—Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley—University of Oklahoma Press
Poetry
Oklahoma Poems…And Their Poets—edited by Nathan Brown—Mezcalita Press
Words of Rain—James Coburn—BlaqRayn Publishing
Deep August—Jessica Isaacs—Village Books Press
The Walmart Republic—Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart—Mongrel Empire Press
Its Day Being Gone—Rose McLarney—Penguin
Re-Writing Family History—Linda Neal Reising—Finishing Line Press
The 2015 Oklahoma Book Awards program book is available upon request.