Because of Winn-Dixie (edition 2021)

by Kate DiCamillo (Author)

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Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

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Title:	Because of Winn-Dixie
Authors:	Kate DiCamillo (Author)
Info:	Candlewick (2021), Edition: Reprint, 192 pages
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Because of Winn-Dixie Excerpt by Kate DiCamillo

Has the adaptation

Because of Winn-Dixie [2005 film] by Wayne Wang

Inspired

Because of Winn-Dixie Movie Scrapbook by Jean K. Kwon

Because of Winn-Dixie Plush Dog by Kate DiCamillo

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Because of Winn Dixie Literature Guide by Charlotte Jaffe

Because of Winn-Dixie: Novel-Ties Study Guide by Kate DiCamillo

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▾Awards and Honors

Awards

Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award (Winner – 3-4 – 2001-2002)

Audie Award (Finalist – Children's Titles for Ages 8+ – 2002)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (2000)

Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Winner – Grades 4-6 – 2002)

Blue Hen Book Award (Winner – Middle Readers – 2002)

Bluestem Award (Winner – 2014)

Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee – Grades 3-5 – 2003)

California Young Reader Medal (Winner – Intermediate, Grades 3-5 – 2003)

Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Winner – 2003)

Charlotte Award (Winner – 2002)

Cocheco Readers' Award (Winner)

Colorado Children's Book Award (Runner-Up – 2003)

Flicker Tale Award (Nominee – Juvenile Books – 2002)

Friends of American Writers Award (Juvenile Book – 2001)

Golden Archer Award (Winner – Intermediate – 2003)

Golden Archer Award (Nominee – Intermediate – 2002)

Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee – Intermediate – 2002)

Great Stone Face Book Award (Winner – 2002)

Indies Choice Book Awards (Winner – Children's Literature – 2001)

Iowa Children's Choice Award (Winner – 2003)

Josette Frank Award (Winner – 2000)

Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature (Honor Book – 2001)

Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee – Grades 3-5 – 2002)

Keystone to Reading Book Award (Winner – Elementary Award, Intermediate Level – 2003)

Land Of Enchantment Book Award (Winner – Children's – 2003)

Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Honor – 3rd-5th Grade – 2003)

Maine Student Book Award (Winner – 2002)

Mark Twain Readers Award (Winner – 2003)

Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)

Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Winner – 2002)

Minnesota Book Awards (Finalist – Young Adult – 2001)

Mitten Award (Winner – 2000)

Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Winner – Honeybee (Chapter Book) – 2003)

New York Times Notable Children's Book (2000)

Newbery Medal (Honor Book – 2001)

Nutmeg Book Award (Winner – Intermediate – 2003)

Nēnē Award (Winner – 2005)

Nēnē Award (Nominee – 2002, 2003, 2004)

Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Winner – Junior – 2003)

Parents' Choice Book Award (Fiction – 2000)

Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee – Grades 3-6 – 2002)

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee – 2002)

Sasquatch Book Award (Winner – 2003)

Sequoyah Book Award (Winner – Children's – 2003)

South Carolina Book Awards (Winner – Children's Book Award – 2003)

South Dakota Children's Book Awards (Winner – Prairie Pasque – 2003)

Southern Book Prize (Winner – Children's – 2001)

Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Winner – Grades 3-5 – 2002)

Texas Bluebonnet Award (Winner – 2002)

Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Winner – 2002)

Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)

Virginia Readers' Choice (Winner – 2003)

Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee – Elementary – 2004)

Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee – Elementary – 2003)

Volunteer State Book Award (Winner – Grades 4-6 – 2003)

West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award (Winner – 2002-2003)

William Allen White Children's Book Award (Winner – Grades 3-5 – 2003)

William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee – Grades 3-5 – 2002-2003)

Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Second runner-up – 2002)

Young Hoosier Book Award (Winner – Intermediate – 2003)

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Canonical title

Original title

Because of Winn-Dixie

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People/Characters

Important places

Open Arms Baptist Church of Naomi

Friendly Corners Trailer Park

USA

Florida, USA

Important events

Related movies

Because of Winn-Dixie (2005 | IMDb)

Epigraph

Dedication

for Tracey and Beck because they listened first

First words

My Name is India Opal Buloni, last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog.

Quotations

“…But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can’t always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.”

“What truth?” I asked her.

“Why, that war is hell,” Miss Franny said with her eyes still closed. “Pure hell.”

“Hell is a cuss word,” said Amanda. I stole a look at her. Her face was pinched up even more than usual.

“War,” said Miss Franny with her eyes still closed, “should be a cuss word, too.”

I didn’t go to sleep right away. I lay there and thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together and how hard it was to separate them out. It was confusing.

“There ain’t no way you can hold on to something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth.

Last words

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Hesse, Karen

Original language

English

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Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

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Because of Winn Dixie by Kate Dicamillio is mostly about friendship and compassion. Opal is close to being a preteen girl living with her father. She takes in this uncared for dog who changes her life forever. She meets unusaul people who become her best friends in life.She is soon to find that one little thunder storm will change her outlook on life.-Autumn Taylor

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