Newbery Honor Books at Howard County Library

26 Fairmount Avenue /

Author: DePaola, Tomie,
ISBN: 039923246
Year: 1999
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
Subjects: De Paola, Tomie - Childhood and youth. - Authors, American. - Illustrators. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JB DE PAOLA

Abel's island /

Author: Steig, William,
ISBN: 0374400164;9780312371432;9780374300104;0374300100
Year: 1976
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Survival - Fiction. - Mice - Islands
Call number: JF STE

Across five Aprils /

Author: Hunt, Irene.
ISBN: 0881030023;9780425182789;9780425102411;0425102416
Year: 1986
Date added: 01/18/2002
Summary: Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
Subjects: Illinois - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Farm life
Call number: YA HUN

Across five Aprils /

Author: Hunt, Irene.
ISBN: 9780425102411;0425102416
Year: 1986
Date added: 04/29/2013
Summary: Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
Subjects: Farm life - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Coming of age - United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Illinois
Call number: JF HUN

After Tupac & D Foster /

Author: Woodson, Jacqueline.
ISBN: 9780399246548
Year: 2008
Date added: 03/27/2008
Summary: In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Subjects: Shakur, Tupac, - Fiction. - Queens (New York, N.Y.) - African Americans - Friendship - Fiction - Coming of age - Newbery Medal.
Call number: YA WOO

Afternoon of the elves /

Author: Lisle, Janet Taylor.
ISBN: 053108437;0531058379;0698118065;9780698118065
Year: 1989
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: As Hillary works in the miniature village, allegedly built by elves, in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Mothers and daughters - Fiction.
Call number: JF LIS

An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 /

Author: Murphy, Jim,
ISBN: 0395776082
Year: 2003
Date added: 06/26/2003
Subjects: Yellow fever - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century. - 1775-1865. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J614.541M

Annie and the Old One /

Author: Miles, Miska.
ISBN: 0316571172;0316571202
Year: 1971
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Navajo Indians - Fiction. - Death
Call number: JF MIL

Because of Winn-Dixie /

Author: DiCamillo, Kate.
ISBN: 0763607762;0763616052;0763625582;9780763644321
Year: 2000
Date added: 09/12/2000
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Dogs - Fiction. - Florida - City and town life
Call number: JF DIC

Belle Prater's boy /

Author: White, Ruth,
ISBN: 0374306680;0440413729;9780440413721;9780374306687
Year: 1996
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Cousins - Fiction. - Loss (Psychology) - Identity (Philosophical concept) - Mother and child - Fiction
Call number: JF WHI

The black cauldron /

Author: Alexander, Lloyd.
ISBN: 0805009922;0003089878;0440406498;9780805061314
Year: 1965
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks the magical Black Cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of Arawn, lord of the Land of Death.
Subjects: Fantasy. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF ALE

The black pearl /

Author: O'Dell, Scott,
ISBN: 0395069610;9780547334004
Year: 1967
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.
Subjects: Manta rays - Fiction. - Pearl diving - Coming of age - Newbery Medal. - Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) - Mexico
Call number: JF O'DE

The blue sword /

Author: McKinley, Robin.
ISBN: 0688009387;9780141309750;014130975
Year: 1982
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
Subjects: Fantasy. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF MCKI

Bomb : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon /

Author: Sheinkin, Steve.
ISBN: 9781596434875
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/06/2012
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Atomic bomb - History. - World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service - Soviet Union. - Great Britain. - Commando operations - Norway - Vemork. - Operation Freshman, 1942. - Germany
Call number: 623.45119S

Breaking Stalin's nose /

Author: Yelchin, Eugene.
ISBN: 9780805092165
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/02/2012
Summary: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
Subjects: Soviet Union - History - 1925-1953 - Fiction. - Communism - Newbery Medal. - Fathers and sons
Call number: JF YEL

Carver, a life in poems /

Author: Nelson, Marilyn,
ISBN: 1886910537;9781886910539
Year: 2001
Date added: 02/15/2002
Subjects: American poetry. - Newbery Medal. - Carver, George Washington, - Poetry. - African Americans - Agriculturists - Coretta Scott King Award.
Call number: J811.54N

Charlotte's web /

Author: White, E. B.
ISBN: 9780060263850;0060263857;0060263865;0064400557;0064410935;9780061120268;9780061124952;9780064410939;006112026
Year: 1980
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Pigs - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Spiders - Animals - Farm life
Call number: JF WHI

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice /

Author: Hoose, Phillip M.,
ISBN: 9780374313227;0374313229
Year: 2009
Date added: 04/03/2009
Subjects: Colvin, Claudette, - African Americans - Alabama - Montgomery. - Biography. - African American civil rights workers - Montgomery - African American teenage girls - Segregation - History. - Segregation in transportation - Newbery Medal. - Montgomery (Ala.)
Call number: B COLVIN H

Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun /

Author: Blumberg, Rhoda.
ISBN: 0688037232
Year: 1985
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.
Subjects: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, - United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) - United States - Foreign relations - Japan. - Japan - United States. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J952.025B

The courage of Sarah Noble /

Author: Dalgliesh, Alice,
ISBN: 0684188309;0689715404;9780689715402
Year: 1954
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction. - Indians of North America - Fiction - Fear
Call number: JF DAL

Crazy lady! /

Author: Conly, Jane Leslie.
ISBN: 0060213604;0064405710;9780064405713
Year: 1993
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.
Subjects: Alcoholics - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Interpersonal relations - Prejudices - People with mental disabilities - Death
Call number: JF CON

The cricket in Times Square /

Author: Selden, George,
ISBN: 0440415632;0374316503;9780374316501
Year: 1960
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Crickets - Fiction.
Call number: JF SEL

Criss cross /

Author: Perkins, Lynne Rae.
ISBN: 9780060092733;0060092734
Year: 2005
Date added: 02/06/2006
Summary: Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Subjects: Nineteen sixties. - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Identity - Fiction
Call number: YA PER

Dark emperor & other poems of the night /

Author: Sidman, Joyce.
ISBN: 9780547152288
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/21/2010
Subjects: Night - Poetry. - American poetry. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J811.54S

The dark is rising /

Author: Cooper, Susan.
ISBN: 0689303173;1416949658;9781416949954;141694995;9781416949657;9780689829833;0689829833;9780689303173
Year: 1973
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Fantasy. - Newbery Medal. - England - Fiction.
Call number: JF COO

The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural /

Author: McKissack, Pat,
ISBN: 0679818634;0679918639;0679890068;9780679890065
Year: 1992
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.
Subjects: Horror stories. - Coretta Scott King Award. - African Americans - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Short stories. - Ghosts
Call number: JF MCKI

Daughter of the mountains /

Author: Rankin, Louise,
ISBN: 9780140363357;0140363351
Year: 1993
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa.
Subjects: Dogs - Fiction. - India - Newbery Medal. - Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
Call number: JF RAN

Doctor De Soto /

Author: Steig, William,
ISBN: 0374318034;9780374318031;0374418101
Year: 1982
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Animals - Fiction - Mice - Fiction. - Dentists
Call number: E STE

Dogsong /

Author: Paulsen, Gary.
ISBN: 068983960;0689804091;9781416939627
Year: 1985
Date added: 05/02/2000
Summary: A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Dogs - Fiction. - Eskimos
Call number: JF PAU

The Egypt game /

Author: Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.
ISBN: 0689300069;0440422256;9781416960652
Year: 1976
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Imagination - Fiction. - Games - Egypt
Call number: JF SNY

Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery /

Author: Freedman, Russell.
ISBN: 0899198627
Year: 1993
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.
Subjects: Roosevelt, Eleanor, - First ladies. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JB ROOSEVELT F

Elijah of Buxton /

Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
ISBN: 0439023440;9780439023443
Year: 2007
Date added: 09/11/2007
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used t
Subjects: Blacks - Canada - Fiction. - North Buxton (Ont.) - Newbery Medal. - Slavery - Freedom
Call number: JF CUR

Ella enchanted /

Author: Levine, Gail Carson.
ISBN: 0060275111;0060275103;0064407055;9780064407052;0590920685;0060558865;9780060275105
Year: 1997
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Subjects: Fantasy. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF LEV

Everything on a waffle /

Author: Horvath, Polly.
ISBN: 0374322368;0374422087;9780374322366
Year: 2000
Date added: 05/03/2001
Summary: Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - British Columbia - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - Foster home care - Self-reliance - Uncles - Parent and child
Call number: JF HOR

The evolution of Calpurnia Tate /

Author: Kelly, Jacqueline.
ISBN: 9780805088410;0805088415
Year: 2009
Date added: 08/17/2009
Summary: In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important d
Subjects: Naturalists - Fiction. - Texas - History - 19th century - Grandfathers - Newbery Medal. - Nature - Family life
Call number: YA KEL

Feathers /

Author: Woodson, Jacqueline.
ISBN: 9780399239892;9780142411988
Year: 2007
Date added: 03/07/2007
Summary: When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Subjects: Religion - Fiction. - African Americans - Deaf - Newbery Medal. - Family life - Race relations - Schools
Call number: JF WOO

Figgs & phantoms /

Author: Raskin, Ellen.
ISBN: 0525296808;9780142411698
Year: 1974
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Chronicles the adventures of the unusual Figg family after they left show business and settled in the town of Pineapple.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Family life - Fiction.
Call number: JF RAS

A fine white dust /

Author: Rylant, Cynthia.
ISBN: 0027772403;068984087;0689804628;9781416927693
Year: 1986
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The visit of the traveling Preacher Man to his small North Carolina town gives new impetus to thirteen-year-old Peter's struggle to reconcile his own deeply felt religious belief with the beliefs and non-beliefs of his family and friends.
Subjects: Religious life - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Interpersonal relations - Conduct of life - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF RYL

The fledgling /

Author: Langton, Jane.
ISBN: 0060236795;0064401219;9780064401210
Year: 1980
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose.
Subjects: Fantasy. - Newbery Medal. - Flight - Fiction. - Canada goose - Human-animal relationships - Geese
Call number: JF LAN

Frog and toad together /

Author: Lobel, Arnold.
ISBN: 006023959;0060239603;0606019006;069401298;9780060239596
Year: 1972
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Five further adventures of two best friends as they share cookies, plant a garden, and test their bravery.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: ER LOB

The golden goblet /

Author: McGraw, Eloise Jarvis.
ISBN: 0140303359
Year: 2006
Date added: 11/17/2008
Summary: A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: JF MCGR

The good master /

Author: Seredy, Kate.
ISBN: 9780140301335;014030133
Year: 1986
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Two cousins spend an adventurous summer on a ranch on the Hungarian plains.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Hungary - Fiction. - Cousins
Call number: JF SER

Graven images : three stories /

Author: Fleischman, Paul.
ISBN: 0763627755;0763629847
Year: 2006
Date added: 02/06/2006
Summary: A collection of three stories about a child who reads the lips of those who whisper secrets into a statue's ear; a daydreaming shoemaker's apprentice who must find ways to make the girl he loves notice him; and a stone carver who creates a statue of a gho
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Statues - Fiction. - Supernatural
Call number: YA Fle

The great fire /

Author: Murphy, Jim,
ISBN: 0590472674
Year: 1995
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Fires - Illinois - Chicago - History - 19th century. - Chicago (Ill.) - To 1875. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J977.311M

The great Gilly Hopkins /

Author: Paterson, Katherine.
ISBN: 0690038380;0064402010;9780064402019;9780690038378;0690038372
Year: 1978
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Foster home care - Fiction.
Call number: JF PAT

Hatchet /

Author: Paulsen, Gary.
ISBN: 0027701301;9780689808821;0689808828;0689840926;9781416936473;9781416936466
Year: 1987
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Divorce - Fiction. - Survival
Call number: JF PAU

Hattie Big Sky /

Author: Larson, Kirby.
ISBN: 0385903324;9780385903325;0385733135;9780385733137
Year: 2006
Date added: 02/01/2007
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 - United States - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction - Orphans - Self-reliance - Montana - History - 20th century
Call number: YA LAR

The headless Cupid /

Author: Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.
ISBN: 0689206879;0440435072;9781416995326
Year: 1971
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Family life - Fiction. - Magic
Call number: JF SNY

Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Manjiro Nakahama /

Homesick : my own story /

Author: Fritz, Jean.
ISBN: 0399209336
Year: 1982
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's.
Subjects: Fritz, Jean. - Autobiography. - China. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JB FRI

Hope was here /

Author: Bauer, Joan,
ISBN: 0399231420;9780399231421
Year: 2000
Date added: 10/16/2000
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt ma
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Diners (Restaurants) - Fiction - Politics, Practical - Fiction. - Cancer
Call number: YA BAU

The house of the scorpion /

Author: Farmer, Nancy.
ISBN: 0689852223;0689852231;9780689852237
Year: 2002
Date added: 02/25/2003
Summary: In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Subjects: Science fiction. - Michael L. Printz Award. - Newbery Medal. - Cloning - Fiction.
Call number: JF FAR

The hundred penny box /

Author: Mathis, Sharon Bell.
ISBN: 0670387878;0140321691;014240702
Year: 1975
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Michael's love for his great-great-aunt who lives with them leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all her old things.
Subjects: Family life - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Grandparents
Call number: JF MAT

In the beginning : creation stories from around the world /

Author: Hamilton, Virginia.
ISBN: 0152387404
Year: 1988
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: An illustrated collection of twenty-five myths from various parts of the world explaining the creation of the world.
Subjects: Creation. - Mythology. - Folklore. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J291.24H

Incident at Hawk's Hill /

Author: Eckert, Allan W.
ISBN: 0316209481;0316219053;0316209481
Year: 1971
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.
Subjects: Badgers - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Family life - Survival
Call number: JF ECK

Inside out & back again /

Author: Lai, Thanhha.
ISBN: 9780061962783
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/23/2011
Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Subjects: Immigrants - Fiction. - Novels in verse. - Vietnamese Americans - Alabama - History - 1951- - Newbery Medal. - Vietnam - 1971-1980 - Emigration and immigration
Call number: JF LAI

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth /

Author: Konigsburg, E. L.
ISBN: 0689746258;9781416933960;1416933964;9780689300073;0689300077
Year: 1967
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first Black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Occultism - Fiction - Friendship
Call number: JF KON

Joey Pigza loses control /

Author: Gantos, Jack.
ISBN: 0374399891;0064410226;9780064410229;9780374399894
Year: 2000
Date added: 09/21/2000
Summary: Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
Subjects: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder - Fiction. - Alcoholism - Newbery Medal. - Baseball - Fiction - Fathers and sons
Call number: JF GAN

Justin Morgan had a horse /

Author: Henry, Marguerite,
ISBN: 0528822551;068971534;0689852797;9780689852794;9781416927853
Year: 1954
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: An unusual work horse raised in Vermont and known originally as "Little Bub" becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner, Justin Morgan.
Subjects: Justin Morgan (Horse) - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Vermont - Horses - Morgan horse
Call number: JF HEN

The King's fifth /

Author: O'Dell, Scott,
ISBN: 0395069637;9780618747832;9780395069639
Year: 1966
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Seven members of Coronado's army attempt to find the fabled cities of Cibola.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - America - Discovery and exploration - Spanish - Fiction.
Call number: JF O'DE

Knee Knock Rise /

Author: Babbitt, Natalie.
ISBN: 9780312370091;0374442606
Year: 2007
Date added: 05/01/2000
Summary: Everyone else in the village is afraid of the creature who supposedly dwells at the top of Kneeknock Rise but young Egan investigates for himself.
Subjects: Haunted places - Fiction.
Call number: JF BAB

Lily's crossing /

Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly.
ISBN: 0385321422;0440414539;9780440414537
Year: 1997
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Subjects: Beaches - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Refugees - World War, 1939-1945 - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF GIF

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy /

Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
ISBN: 0618439293;0553494953;9780553494952
Year: 2004
Date added: 08/27/2004
Summary: In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a to
Subjects: Progress - Fiction. - Clergy - Michael L. Printz Award. - Newbery Medal. - Maine - History - 20th century - Moving, Household - Fiction - Race relations
Call number: YA SCH

The middle Moffat /

Author: Estes, Eleanor,
ISBN: 0152025235;0152025294;9780152025298
Year: 2001
Date added: 11/13/2001
Summary: Follows the adventures and misadventures of ten-year-old Jane Moffat living with her widowed mother and three siblings in their new home in Cranbury, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century.
Subjects: Family life - Connecticut - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Moving, Household - Fiction
Call number: JF EST

Moccasin trail /

Author: McGraw, Eloise Jarvis.
ISBN: 9780140321708;0140321705
Year: 1986
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
Subjects: Crow Indians - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Indians of North America - Fiction - West (U.S.)
Call number: JF MCGR

The moorchild /

Author: McGraw, Eloise Jarvis.
ISBN: 068980654;068982033;9781416927686
Year: 2006
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given.
Subjects: Fantasy. - Fairies - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Identity (Philosophical concept)
Call number: JF MCGR

The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg /

Author: Philbrick, W. R.
ISBN: 9780439668187;0439668182;9780439668217
Year: 2009
Date added: 12/12/2008
Summary: Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Orphans - Fiction. - Brothers - Fiction - United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: JF PHI

The moves make the man : a novel /

Author: Brooks, Bruce.
ISBN: 0060206799;9780064405645;9780064470223
Year: 1984
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A Black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Friendship - Fiction - Emotional problems - Newbery Medal.
Call number: YA BRO

My brother Sam is dead

Author: Collier, James Lincoln,
ISBN: 9781605149028
Year: 2008
Date added: 08/28/2008
Summary: Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution, when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
Subjects: Young adult talking books. - Newbery Medal. - United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Fiction
Call number: DAB YA COL

My brother Sam is dead /

Author: Collier, James Lincoln,
ISBN: 9780590427920;9780439783606;9780027229806
Year: 1974
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Fiction.
Call number: YA COL

Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel /

Author: Avi,
ISBN: 0531059596;0531085597;038071907;9780545174152
Year: 1991
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - High schools - Fiction. - Schools
Call number: YA AVI

On my honor /

Author: Bauer, Marion Dane.
ISBN: 0899194397;0440466334;9780440466338;9780547722405
Year: 1986
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
Subjects: Obedience - Fiction. - Accidents - Friendship - Conduct of life - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF BAU

One crazy summer /

Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita.
ISBN: 9780060760885
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/15/2010
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated
Subjects: Black Panther Party - Fiction. - Oakland (Calif.) - History - 20th century - African Americans - Civil rights movements - Newbery Medal. - Coretta Scott King Award. - Poets - Sisters - Mothers
Call number: JF WIL

One-eyed cat : a novel /

Author: Fox, Paula.
ISBN: 0027355403;9780689839702;0689839707
Year: 1984
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.
Subjects: Firearms. - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Cats
Call number: JF FOX

Our only May Amelia /

Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
ISBN: 0060278226;9780064408561;0064408566
Year: 1999
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
Subjects: Washington (State) - Fiction. - Sex role - Finnish Americans - Newbery Medal. - Brothers and sisters - Frontier and pioneer life
Call number: JF HOL

Penny from heaven

Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
ISBN: 0739335960;9780739331118
Year: 2006
Date added: 07/27/2006
Summary: As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death.
Subjects: Family life - New Jersey - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Talking books for children - History - 20th century - Italian Americans - Secrets
Call number: JCD JF HOL

Penny from heaven /

Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
ISBN: 037583687
Year: 2006
Date added: 07/27/2006
Summary: As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death.
Subjects: Family life - New Jersey - Fiction. - History - 20th century - Newbery Medal. - Italian Americans - Secrets
Call number: JF HOL

Philip Hall likes me, I reckon maybe /

Author: Greene, Bette,
ISBN: 9780141303123;0141303123
Year: 1999
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that Philip Hall likes her, but their on-again, off-again relationship sometimes makes her wonder.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Friendship - Fiction.
Call number: JF GRE

The planet of Junior Brown /

Author: Hamilton, Virginia.
ISBN: 002742510;0020435401;0689717210
Year: 1971
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Friendship - Fiction - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF HAM

Princess Academy /

Author: Hale, Shannon.
ISBN: 1582349932;9781599900735;9781582349930
Year: 2005
Date added: 10/04/2005
Summary: While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
Subjects: Self-confidence - Fiction. - Telepathy - Newbery Medal. - Princesses - Mountains - Schools
Call number: JF HAL

Ramona and her father /

Author: Cleary, Beverly
ISBN: 0688321143;9780380709168;0380709163;9780688221140;0688221149
Year: 2006
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Family problems - Fiction. - Fathers and daughters
Call number: JF CLE

Ramona Quimby, age 8 /

Author: Cleary, Beverly
ISBN: 9780380709564;0380709562;0688004776;9780688004774;0688004784
Year: 2006
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Family life - Fiction. - Schools
Call number: JF CLE

A ring of endless light /

Author: L'Engle, Madeleine.
ISBN: 9780312379353;0374362998
Year: 2008
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with whom she has been doing research.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Dolphins - Fiction. - Death
Call number: JF L'EN

The road from home : the story of an Armenian girl /

Author: Kherdian, David.
ISBN: 0688842054
Year: 1979
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A biography of the author's mother concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish government deported its Armenian population.
Subjects: Kherdian, Veron, - Armenians in Turkey - Biography. - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JB KHE- K

Rufus M. /

Author: Estes, Eleanor,
ISBN: 9780152025779
Year: 2001
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The adventures of seven-year-old Rufus Moffat, living with his widowed mother and older siblings including his encounter with an invisible piano player and his attempts at ventroliquism.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction. - Family life - Connecticut
Call number: JF EST

Rules /

Author: Lord, Cynthia.
ISBN: 0439443822;9780439443838;0439443830
Year: 2006
Date added: 05/17/2006
Summary: Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
Subjects: Autism - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Brothers and sisters - People with disabilities
Call number: JF LOR

Savvy /

Author: Law, Ingrid,
ISBN: 9780803733060
Year: 2008
Date added: 07/17/2008
Summary: Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction - Magic - Fiction. - Voyages and travels
Call number: JF LAW

Scorpions /

Author: Myers, Walter Dean,
ISBN: 0060243643
Year: 1988
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun until a tragedy occurs.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Gangs - Fiction - Newbery Medal. - Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Call number: JF MYE

Seabird /

Author: Holling, Holling Clancy.
ISBN: 0395266815;9780395182307;0395182301
Year: 1975
Date added: 04/27/2000
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Sailing - Fiction. - Ships
Call number: JF Hol

Shabanu : daughter of the wind /

Author: Staples, Suzanne Fisher.
ISBN: 0440238560;0394848152
Year: 1989
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In a year that brings a destructive sandstorm, a feud with a rich landowner, and other disasters, Shabanu, the eleven-year-old daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of Pakistan, becomes a victim of her people's views of sex role and marriage.
Subjects: Cholistan Desert (Pakistan) - Fiction. - Sex role - Pakistan
Call number: YA STA

Shadrach /

Author: De Jong, Meindert,
ISBN: 0064401154
Year: 1980
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Davie finds it almost unbelievable that he has a pet rabbit all his own, and he's devastated on the day he goes out to the barn and finds that Shadrach has slipped out of his hutch and disappeared. Based on the author's own childhood in the Netherlands, t
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Rabbits - Fiction.
Call number: JF DEJ

Show way /

Author: Woodson, Jacqueline.
ISBN: 0399237496
Year: 2005
Date added: 12/30/2005
Summary: The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Slavery - Quilts - Mothers and daughters
Call number: E C

The sign of the beaver /

Author: Speare, Elizabeth George
ISBN: 0395338905;0440479002;9780440479000
Year: 1983
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Indians of North America - Fiction - Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction. - Survival - Friendship
Call number: JF SPE

Sing down the moon /

Author: O'Dell, Scott,
ISBN: 0395109191;0440979757
Year: 1970
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A young Navaho girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Navaho Indians - Fiction.
Call number: JF O'DE

The singing tree /

Author: Seredy, Kate.
ISBN: 9780140345438;0140345434
Year: 1990
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Life changes drastically for a Hungarian family when World War I upsets their peaceful, contented existence and the children are left in charge of the farm.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 - Hungary - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Farm life
Call number: JF SER

A solitary blue /

Author: Voigt, Cynthia.
ISBN: 0689310080;0689864345;9781442428805
Year: 1983
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Divorce - Fiction. - Fathers and sons
Call number: JF VOI

Somewhere in the darkness /

Author: Myers, Walter Dean,
ISBN: 9780545055772;0545055776
Year: 2008
Date added: 11/14/2008
Summary: A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be a time of often painful discovery for them both.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction. - Prisoners - Fathers and sons
Call number: YA MYE

Splendors and glooms

Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy.
ISBN: 9781449835729;1449835724
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/15/2012
Summary: When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Talking books for children. - Puppets - Fiction. - Orphans - Kidnapping - Witches - Blessing and cursing - London (England) - History - 19th century - Great Britain - Victoria, 1837-1901
Call number: JCD JF SCH

Splendors and glooms /

Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy.
ISBN: 9780763653804
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/23/2012
Summary: When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch
Subjects: Puppets - Fiction. - Orphans - Kidnapping - Witches - Blessing and cursing - Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901 - Newbery Medal. - London (England) - 19th century
Call number: JF SCH

A string in the harp /

Author: Bond, Nancy.
ISBN: 068950036;0689804458;9780689500367;9781416927716
Year: 1976
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Wales - Fiction. - Taliesin - Space and time
Call number: JF BON

Sugaring time /

Author: Lasky, Kathryn.
ISBN: 0027516806;068971081
Year: 1983
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.
Subjects: Maple sugar. - Maple syrup. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J633.64L

The surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom /

Author: Engle, Margarita.
ISBN: 0805086749;9780805086744
Year: 2008
Date added: 02/25/2009
Summary: Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Children's poetry, American. - Cuba - History - 1810-1899 - Poetry.
Call number: 811.54E

The thief /

Author: Turner, Megan Whalen.
ISBN: 0688146279;0140388346;9780060824976;0060824972
Year: 1996
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Adventure and adventurers - Fiction. - Robbers and outlaws
Call number: JF TUR

Three times lucky /

To be a slave /

Author: Lester, Julius.
ISBN: 0803723474
Year: 1998
Date added: 02/17/2000
Summary: A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Subjects: Slaves. - Social conditions. - Slave trade. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J306.3L

The tombs of Atuan /

Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.,
ISBN: 0689316844;0689845359;9780689845369;0689845367;9781416509622;1416509623
Year: 1971
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Fantasy.
Call number: JF LEG

The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle /

Author: Avi,
ISBN: 0531084930;053105893;0439327318;0380728850;0380714752
Year: 1990
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
Subjects: Sea stories. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF AVI

Turtle in paradise /

Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
ISBN: 9780375836886
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/01/2010
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Subjects: Family life - Florida - Fiction. - Depressions - 1929 - Newbery Medal. - Key West (Fla.) - History - 20th century - Cousins - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: JF HOL

The underneath /

Author: Appelt, Kathi,
ISBN: 1416950583;9781416950585
Year: 2008
Date added: 07/15/2008
Summary: An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Cats - Fiction. - Dogs - Survival - Bayous
Call number: JF APP

The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights /

Author: Freedman, Russell.
ISBN: 0618159762
Year: 2004
Date added: 06/29/2004
Subjects: Anderson, Marian, - Singers. - Women - Biography. - African Americans - Biography - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JB ANDERSON F

The Wanderer /

Author: Creech, Sharon.
ISBN: 0060277319;9780060277307;0060277300;0060766735;9780064410328;0064410323
Year: 2000
Date added: 06/12/2000
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
Subjects: Sea stories. - Grandfathers - Fiction. - Family life - Newbery Medal. - Ocean voyages - Sailboats - Sailing
Call number: JF CRE

The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel /

Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
ISBN: 0440414121;9780385321754;0385321759;9780440228004
Year: 1995
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Family life - Newbery Medal. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction - Coretta Scott King Award. - Flint (Mich.) - Prejudices
Call number: JF CUR

The Wednesday wars /

Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
ISBN: 9780618724833;0618724834
Year: 2007
Date added: 06/21/2007
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much
Subjects: Junior high schools - Fiction. - Family life - Long Island (N.Y.) - History - 20th century - Coming of age - Newbery Medal. - Shakespeare, William, - Schools
Call number: YA SCH

What Jamie saw /

Author: Coman, Carolyn.
ISBN: 1886910022;0140383352;9781590786390
Year: 2008
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Child abuse - Fiction.
Call number: YA COM

When Shlemiel went to Warsaw and other stories /

Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis,
Year: 1968
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Short stories.
Call number: JF SIN

Where the mountain meets the moon /

Author: Lin, Grace.
ISBN: 9780316114271;9780316038638
Year: 2009
Date added: 07/21/2009
Summary: Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
Subjects: Fairy tales. - Newbery Medal. - Moon - Fiction. - Dragons
Call number: JF LIN

Whittington /

Author: Armstrong, Alan W.,
ISBN: 0375828648;9780375828652
Year: 2005
Date added: 08/05/2005
Summary: Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Cats - Fiction. - Whittington, Richard, - Legends - Domestic animals
Call number: JF ARM

The wish giver : three tales of Coven Tree /

Author: Brittain, Bill.
ISBN: 9780060206871;006020687;9780064401685;0064401685
Year: 1983
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Wishes - Fiction. - Magic
Call number: JF BRI

The witches of Worm /

Author: Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.
ISBN: 0689300662;0440497272
Year: 1972
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A lonely twelve-year-old is convinced that the cat she finds is possessed by a witch and is responsible for her own strange behavior.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Witchcraft - Fiction.
Call number: JF SNY

The Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane /

Author: Freedman, Russell.
ISBN: 0823408752
Year: 1991
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
Subjects: Wright, Orville, - Aeronautics - Biography. - Newbery Medal. - Wright, Wilbur,
Call number: 629.13F

Wringer /

Author: Spinelli, Jerry.
ISBN: 0060249137;0060249145;0064405788
Year: 1997
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Courage - Fiction - Violence - Fiction. - Pigeons
Call number: JF SPI

Yolonda's genius /

Author: Fenner, Carol.
ISBN: 0689813279;0689800010;9780689800016
Year: 1995
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Genius - Newbery Medal. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction - Moving, Household - Musicians
Call number: JF FEN

Zlateh the goat and other stories /

Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis,
ISBN: 9780060284770
Year: 1994
Date added: 05/23/2012
Summary: Seven stories based on middle-European Jewish folklore and legends.
Subjects: Jews - Folklore. - Folklore - Poland. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J398.2S