NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS

• Award for Childrens Literature
• 2008 - 1981

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS

• The 2000s

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2008 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a
  Medieval Village

• Laura Amy Schlitz

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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a
Medieval Village

• Maidens, monks, and millers' sons
• Hugo, the lord's nephew, forced to prove his
  manhood by hunting a wild boar
• Nelly, sharp-tongued, who supports her family by
  selling live eels
• Mogg, the peasant's daughter who gets a clever
  lesson in how to save a cow from a greedy
  landlord
• and many more tales of 13th century England
• Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings

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2007 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The Higher Power of Lucky

• Susan Patron

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The Higher Power of Lucky

• When Lucky's mother is electrocuted and dies
  after a storm, Lucky's absentee father calls his
  ex-wife, Brigitte, to fly over from France to
  take care of her. Two years later, the
  10-year-old worries that Brigitte is tired of
  being her guardian and of their life in Hard Pan
  (population 42) in the middle of the California
  desert.
• While Lucky's best friend ties intricate knots
  and the little boy down the road cries for
  attention, she tries to get some control over her
  life by restocking her survival kit backpack
  and searching for her Higher Power.
  Unfortunately, Lucky runs away during a dangerous
  dust storm.
• The story of a young girl who struggles to come
  to terms with her mother's death and her new
  life.

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The Higher Power of Lucky

• Censorship Note
• This book was banned by some school libraries
  because of its references to a dog's scrotum,
  smoking, drinking, and marijuana.

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2006 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Criss Cross

• Lynn Rae Perkins

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CRISS CROSS

• Debbie, who wishes that something would happen so
  she'll be a different person, and Hector, who
  feels he is unfinished, narrate most of the
  novel. Both are 14 years old.
• A secondary story involving Debbie's locket that
  goes missing in the beginning of the tale and is
  passed around by a number of characters
  emphasizes the theme of the book a group of
  childhood friends facing the crossroads of life
  and how they wish to live it.
• The writing includes poems, prose, haiku, and
  question-and-answer formats. It is illustrated
  with Perkins's amusing drawings and photographs.

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2005 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Kira-Kira

• Cynthia Kadohata

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KIRA-KIRA

• Glittering. Thats how Katie Takeshimas sister,
  Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira
  because its color is deep but see-through at the
  same time. And so are peoples eyes. When Katie
  and her family move from a Japanese community in
  Iowa to Georgia, its Lynn who explains to her
  why people stop them on the street to stare. But
  when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole
  family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to
  find a way to remind them all that there is
  always something glitteringkira-kirain the
  future.
• Chronicles the close friendship between two
  Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural
  Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s,
  and the despair when one sister becomes
  terminally ill.

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2004 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The Tale of Despereaux Being the Story of a
  Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of
  Thread

• Kate DiCamillo

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THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX BEING THE STORY OF A
MOUSE, A PRINCESS, SOME SOUP, AND A SPOOL OF
THREAD

• The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small
  mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he
  loves, the servant girl who longs to be a
  princess and a devious rat determined to bring
  them all to ruin.

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Kate DiCamillo

• DiCamillo also wrote Because of Winn-Dixie
• 2001 Newbery Honor Book

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2003 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Crispin The Cross of Lead

• Avi

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CRISPIN THE CROSS OF LEAD

• Set in 14th-century England, this book begins
  with a funeral of a village outcast and whose
  adolescent son is known only as "Asta's son." The
  boy learns his given name, Crispin, although his
  presumably dead father's identity remains
  obscure. The words etched on his mother's
  treasured lead cross provide a clue to his
  identity.
• Crispin is fingered for the murder by the manor
  steward, who declares him a "wolf's head" wanted
  dead or alive, preferably dead. Crispin flees,
  and falls in with a traveling juggler. Crispin
  learns he's the bastard son of the lord of the
  manor and finds his place in the world.

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Avi

• Avi has published 60 books and is the winner of
  the Newbery Medal for Crispin the Cross of Lead,
  and two Newbery Honors, for True Confessions of
  Charlotte Doyle and Nothing But the Truth

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2002 NEWBERY MEDAL

• A Single Shard

• Linda Sue Park

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A SINGLE SHARD

• A broken piece of pottery sets events in motion
  as an orphan struggles to pay off his debt to a
  master potter.
• In Ch'ul'po, a potter's village, Crane-man (so
  called because of one shriveled leg) raises
  10-year-old orphan Tree Ear (named for a mushroom
  that grows "without benefit of "parent-seed")
  while they reside under a bridge, surviving on
  cast-off rubbish and fallen grains of rice.
• Tree Ear admires the work of the potters until he
  accidentally destroys a piece by Min, the most
  talented of the town's craftsmen, and pays his
  debt in servitude for nine days. During a
  pilgrimage to Songdo to show Min's work to the
  royal court, robbers shatter the work but Tree
  Ear faithfully continues even though he has only
  a single shard to show.

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2001 NEWBERY MEDAL

• A Year Down Yonder

• Richard Peck

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A YEAR DOWN YONDER

• Chicago-bred Mary Alice has been sentenced to a
  year-long stay down yonder in rural Illinois
  with her irrepressible, rough and gruff
  grandmother, while her brother Joey heads west
  with the Civilian Conservation Corps, and her
  parents struggle to get back on their feet during
  the 1937 recession.
• Each season brings new adventures as Mary Alice
  becomes Grandma's partner in crime, helping to
  carry out madcap schemes to benefit friends and
  avenge enemies. Around Halloween, for example,
  the woman, armed with wire, a railroad spike and
  a bucket of glue, outsmarts a gang of pranksters
  bent on upturning her privy.
• This book is a sequel to A Long Way to Chicago,
  which is told from Joeys point of view.

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2000 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Bud, Not Buddy

• Christopher Paul Curtis

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BUD, NOT BUDDY

• Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in
  Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression,
  escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search
  of the man he believes to be his father--the
  renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand
  Rapids.

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Christopher Paul Curtis

• Curtis also wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham
  1963
• 1995 Newbery Honor Book

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS

• The 1990s

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1999 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Holes

• Louis Sachar

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HOLES

• As further evidence of his family's bad fortune,
  which they attribute to a curse on a distant
  relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish
  boys' juvenile detention center in the Texas
  desert, wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair
  of tennis shoes.
• The boys at Camp Green Lake must each dig a hole
  every day, five feet deep and five feet across as
  their punishment. Ultimately, Stanley "digs up
  the truth" -- and through his experience, finds
  his first real friend, a treasure, and a new
  sense of himself.
• The story is told through flashbacks.

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1998 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Out of the Dust

• Karen Hesse

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OUT OF THE DUST

• This novel is the story of the discontent of
  narrator Billy Jo, a talented pianist growing up
  during the Depression. Unlike her father, who
  refuses to abandon his failing farm, Billy Jo is
  eager to "walk my way West/ and make myself to
  home in that distant place/ of green vines and
  promise." She wants to become a professional
  musician and travel across the country. But those
  dreams end with a tragic fire that takes her
  mother's life and reduces her own hands to
  useless, "swollen lumps."
• Written in free verse, this story is set in the
  heart of the Great Depression. It chronicles
  Oklahoma's staggering dust storms, and the
  environmentaland emotionalturmoil they leave in
  their path.

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1997 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The View from Saturday

• E. L. Konigsburg

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THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY

• Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade Academic
  Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School, they beat
  the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And
  when they went on to even greater victories,
  everyone began to ask How did it happen?
• It happened because Noah had been the best man at
  the wedding of Ethan's grandmother and Nadia's
  grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered
  that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die.
  It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face
  disaster alone. And it happened because Julian
  valued something important in himself and saw in
  the other three something he also valued.
• Mrs. Olinski, a paraplegic returning to teaching
  after having been injured in an automobile
  accident, found that her Academic Bowl team
  became her answer to finding confidence and
  success.
• Told in four short stories one for each of the
  team members.

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E. L. Konigsburg

• Konigsburg is the only author to have won the
  Newbery Medal and be a runner-up in the same
  year.
• 1968 Newbery Medal From the Mixed-Up Files of
  Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• 1968 Newbery Honor Book Jennifer, Hecate,
  Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

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1996 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The Midwifes Apprentice

• Karen Cushman

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THE MIDWIFES APPRENTICE

• Set in medieval England, the main character first
  appears asleep in a heap of dung. Homeless and
  nameless, she cant remember a time when she did
  not wander from village to village. She is
  rescued by a sharp-tongued local midwife, who
  feeds her in exchange for work.
• Gradually the girl forges an identity for herself
  and gains the things she most wants a full
  belly, a contented heart, and a place in this
  world.

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Karen Cushman

• Interested in history, Cushman wrote the 1995
  Newbery Honor book, Catherine called Birdy also
  set in medieval England.

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1995 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Walk Two Moons

• Sharon Creech

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WALK TWO MOONS

• The struggle of 13-year-old Sal to understand
  and deal with her mother's disappearance unfolds
  while on a cross-country trip with her eccentric
  grandparents. Sal tells them the story of her
  friend Phoebe whose mother has also left home,
  but in reality it is her own story.

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1994 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The Giver

• Lois Lowry

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THE GIVER

• Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under
  control. There is no war or fear of pain. There
  are no choices. Every person is assigned a role
  in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is
  singled out to receive special training from The
  Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the
  true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time
  for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no
  turning back.

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1993 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Missing May

• Cynthia Rylant

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Missing May

• When May dies suddenly while gardening, Summer
  assumes she'll never see her beloved aunt again.
  But then Summer's Uncle Ob claims that May is on
  her way back--she has sent a sign from the spirit
  world. Summer isn't sure she believes in the
  spirit world, but her quirky classmate Cletus
  Underwood--who befriends Ob during his time of
  mourning--does.
• So Ob, Summer, and Cletus leave their West
  Virginia trailer and set off in search of Miriam
  B. Young, Small Medium at Large, whom they hope
  will explain May's departure and confirm her
  possible return.

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1992 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Shiloh

• Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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Shiloh

• When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind
  his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it
  from his family and the dog's real owner, a
  mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of
  season and to mistreat his dogs.

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1991 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Maniac Magee

• Jerry Spinelli

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Maniac Magee

• This modern-day tall tale is a story of racism.
  Orphaned as an infant, Jerry Magee is reared by
  his feuding aunt and uncle until he runs away at
  age eight.
• He finds his way to Two Mills, Pa., where the
  legend of Maniac'' Magee begins after he scores
  major upsets against Brian Denehy, the star high
  school football player, and Little League tough
  guy, John McNab. In racially divided Two Mills,
  the Beales, a black family, take Maniac in, but
  despite his local fame, community pressure forces
  him out and he returns to living at the zoo.
• Park groundskeeper Grayson next cares for the
  boy, but the old man dies and Maniac moves into
  the squalid home of the McNabs, who are convinced
  a race war is imminent. After a showdown with his
  nemesis, Mars Bar, Maniac bridges the gap between
  the two sides of town and finally finds a home.

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1990 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Number the Stars

• Lois Lowry

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Number the Stars

• Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best
  friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the
  war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen
  is filled with school, food shortages, and the
  Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the
  Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in
  with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the
  family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a
  dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS

• The 1980s

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1989 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Joyful Noise Poems for Two Voices

• Paul Fleishman

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Joyful Noise Poems for Two Voices

• Written to be read aloud by two voices, this is
  a collection of poems that celebrate the insect
  world, from the short life of the mayfly to the
  love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud,
  and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a
  booming, boisterous, joyful noise.

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1988 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Lincoln A Photobiography

• Russell Freedman

Photographs and text trace the life of this Civil
War President.
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1987 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The Whipping Boy

• Sid Fleishman

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The Whipping Boy

• Since it is forbidden to spank the heir to the
  throne, Jemmy has been taken from the streets to
  serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and
  spiteful Prince Brat.
• Jemmy is smart, and learns to read and write
  while living in the castle, but he also thinks
  about escape. When Jemmy and Prince Brat leave
  the castle, but they are kidnapped and their
  identities are mistaken. Jemmy is treated like
  the Prince and Prince Brat like the servant. In
  the end Prince Brat learns from his experience,
  and Jemmys lot in life is forever changed as
  well.

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1986 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Sarah, Plain and Tall

• Patricia MacLachlan

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Sarah, Plain and Tall

• "I will come by train. I will wear a yellow
  bonnet. I am plain and tall."
• When their father invites a mail-order bride to
  come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb
  and Anna are captivated by their new mother and
  hope that she will stay.

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1985 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The Hero and the Clown

• Robin McKinley

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The Hero and the Clown

• Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and
  the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright
  due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and
  a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted
  North.

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1984 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Dear Mr. Henshaw

• Beverly Cleary

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Dear Mr. Henshaw

• In his letters to his favorite author,
  ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping
  with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in
  school, and generally finding his own place in
  the world.

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1983 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Diceys Song

• Cynthia Voight

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Diceys Song

• The four abandoned Tillerman children finally
  have a home at their grandmother's rundown farm
  on the Maryland shore. It's what Dicey has
  dreamed of for her three younger siblings, but
  after watching over the others for so long, it's
  hard to let go.

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Cynthia Voight

• Voight has written 7 books in the Tillerman
  Family cycle of books
• (1) Homecoming(2) Dicey's Song(3) Solitary
  Blue(4) Runner(5) Come A Stranger(6) Sons from
  Afar(7) Seventeen Against the Dealer

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1982 NEWBERY MEDAL

• A Visit to William Blakes Inn Poems for
  Innocent and Experienced Travelers

• Nancy Willard

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A Visit to William Blakes Inn Poems for
Innocent and Experienced Travelers

• Inspired by William Blakes Songs of Innocence
  and Songs of Experience, this collection of
  poetry brings to life Blakes imaginary inn and
  its unusual guests of tigers, cats, and bears.
• This book was also chosen as a Caldecott Honor
  book in 1982.

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1981 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Jacob Have I Loved

• Katherine Paterson

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Jacob Have I Loved

• Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island in
  the early 1940s, angry Sara Louise reveals how
  Caroline robbed her of everything her hopes for
  schooling, her friends, her mother, even her
  name.
• While everyone pampered Caroline, Wheeze (her
  sister's name for her) began to learn the ways of
  the watermen and the secrets of the island,
  especially of old Captain Wallace, who had
  mysteriously returned after fifty years.

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Jacob Have I Loved

• The title comes from the Bible story of Jacob
  and Esau, Isaac's twin sons. Although Esau was
  the older son, Jacob was favored by his mother
  and when Isaac was dying, Jacob disguised himself
  as his brother and received the blessing meant
  for the eldest son.
• And so a story of jealousy and of finding
  oneself with her grandmother's taunt, Sara
  Louise knows that she was the despised older
  twin. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was
  the one everyone loved.

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1980 NEWBERY MEDAL

• A Gathering of Days A New England Girls
  Journal, 1830-1832

• Joan W. Blos

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A Gathering of Days A New Englands Girls
Journal, 1830 - 1832

• Written in diary form, Catherine describes her
  daily life  lessons in the one-room schoolhouse
  the chores on the farm, sewing, cooking her
  friendship with Cassie and the changes and
  pleasures the seasons bring, including berrying,
  "breaking out," and sugaring.
• After her mother's death, all of the duties of
  running the household and caring for her father
  and younger sister fall on Catherine's
  shoulders.  She strives to do her best gracefully
  without complaining.  She expresses her feelings
  about the changes including her father's
  remarriage, a runaway slave's plea for help, and
  the death of her best friend, Cassie.

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS

• Miscellaneous Years
• 1979 - 1922

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1979 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The Westing Game

• Ellen Raskin

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The Westing Game

• The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire
  brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs
  who must uncover the circumstances of his death
  before they can claim their inheritance.

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1978 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Bridge to Terabitha

• Katherine Paterson

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Bridge to Terabitha

• All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest
  boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first
  school-yard race was run, he was going to win.But
  his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl,
  one who didn't even know enough to stay on the
  girls' side of the playground. Then,
  unexpectedly, Jess finds himself sticking up for
  Leslie, for the girl who breaks rules and wins
  races. The friendship between the two grows as
  Jess guides the city girl through the pitfalls of
  life in their small, rural town, and Leslie draws
  him into the world of imaginations world of magic
  and ceremony called Terabithia. Here, Leslie and
  Jess rule supreme among the oaks and evergreens,
  safe from the bullies and ridicule of the mundane
  world. Safe until an unforeseen tragedy forces
  Jess to reign in Terabithia alone, and both
  worlds are forever changed.
• The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia
  expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer
  who subsequently meets an untimely death trying
  to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a
  storm.

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1972 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

• Robert C. OBrien

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

• Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small
  children, is faced with a terrible problem. She
  must move her family to their summer quarters
  immediately, or face almost certain death. But
  her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with
  pneumonia and must not be moved.
• Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an
  extraordinary breed of highly intelligent
  creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution
  to her dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders
  them a great service.

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1970 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Sounder

• William Armstrong

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Sounder

• Sounder is no beauty but as a coon dog this
  loyal mongrel is unmatched. When the African
  American sharecropper who has raised Sounder from
  a pup is hauled off to jail for stealing a hog,
  his family must suffer their humiliation and
  crushing loss with no recourse. To make matters
  worse, in the fracas, Sounder is shot and
  disappears.
• The eventual return of a tattered and emaciated
  Sounder doesn't change the fact that the
  sharecropper's oldest son is forced to take on
  man's work to help support the family. His
  transition to adulthood is paved by the rocks and
  taunts hurled at him by convicts and guards as he
  searches for his father. But along this rough
  road he ultimately finds salvation as well.

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1968 NEWBERY MEDAL

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
  Frankweiler

• E. L. Konigsburg

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1963 NEWBERY MEDAL

• A Wrinkle in Time

• Madeleine LEngle

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A Wrinkle in Time

• Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace,
  and their mother are having a midnight snack on a
  dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger
  appears at their door. Mrs. Whatsit claims to
  have been blown off course, and goes on to tell
  them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract,"
  which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time.
  Meg's father had been experimenting with
  time-travel when he suddenly disappeared.
• The companion books in the Time quartet,
  continuing the adventures of the Murry family,
  are A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
  and Many Waters.

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1944 NEWBERY MEDAL

• Johnny Tremain

• Esther Forbes

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Johnny Tremain

• Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent times in
  Boston just before the  Revolutionary War.
  Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught
  up in the exciting currents and undercurrents
  that were to lead to the Boston Tea Party and the
  Battle of  Lexington -- and finally, a touching
  resolution of Johnny's personal life. Esther
  Forbes received the Pulitzer Prize for history
  for Paul Revere and the World He Lived In.

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1922 NEWBERY MEDAL

• The Story of Mankind

• Hendrik Willem van Loon

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The Story of Mankind

• Beginning with the origins of human life and
  sweeping forward to illuminate all of history.
  His unique ability to convey history as a
  fascinating tale of adventure has endeared the
  book to countless readers and has accorded it a
  unique place in publishing history.

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QUIZ
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QUESTION

• Name the book by Richard Peck in which Mary
  Alice takes the train from Chicago to spend a
  year with her Grandma Dowdel in southern
  Illinois.

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ANSWER

• A Year Down Yonder - 2005

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QUESTION

• In what Newbery Medal winning book does Lois
  Lowry tell about the plight of Annemarie Johansen
  and Ellen Rosen during the Holocaust?

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ANSWER

• Number the Stars 1990

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QUESTION

• Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux
  were written by what Newbery winning author?

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ANSWER

• Kate Dicamillo
• 2004

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QUESTION

• Sixteen heirs are called upon at the reading of
  his will to unravel the secret behind his
  untimely death in what Newbery Medal book by
  Ellen Raskin?

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ANSWER

• The Westing Game 1979

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QUESTION

• Set in Friendly, West Virginia, a boy named
  Marty Preston finds a stray beagle in the hills
  near his home. Name this Newbery Medal-winning
  book by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

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ANSWER

• Shiloh 1992

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QUESTION

• What were the first words that Lynn taught her
  sister, Katie, in Cynthia Kadohatas Newbery
  Award-winning novel?

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ANSWER

• kira-kira
• 2005

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QUESTION

• She is an orphan girl, known first as Brat, then
  Beetle, and finally Alyce, who is found in a dung
  heap by the village midwife, Jane Sharp. What is
  this Newbery Medal winner by Karen Cushman?

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ANSWER

• The Midwifes Apprentice 1996

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QUESTION

• The Tale of Despereaux is the story of what four
  things?

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ANSWER

• A mouse
• A princess
• Some soup
• Spool of thread

2004
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QUESTION

• Meg Murry is transported through time and space
  with her younger brother, Charles Wallace, and
  her friend Calvin O'Keef to rescue her father on
  another planet. What is this book by Madeleine
  L'Engle LENG-el?

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ANSWER

• A Wrinkle in Time 1963

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QUESTION

• Identify the author of the Newbery Medal winning
  books The View From Saturday and From the
  Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

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ANSWER

• E. L. Konigsburg
• 1997 1968

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QUESTION

• Jonas is selected to become the Receiver of
  Memory for his community in what Newbery Medal
  book by Lois Lowry?

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ANSWER

• The Giver 1994

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QUESTION

• Jesse Aarons returns from a trip to Washington
  to find that his best friend Leslie has drowned
  in what book by Katherine Paterson?

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ANSWER

• The Bridge to Terabithia - 1978

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QUESTION

• This book tells the story of three adolescent
  friends Debbie, Hector and Lenny. Name this
  2006 Newbery Medal book by Lynne Rae Perkins.

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ANSWER

• Criss Cross - 2006

113
QUESTION

• Identify the U. S. President who is the subject
  of the Newbery Medal photobiography by Russell
  Freedman.

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ANSWER

• Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln A Photobiography 1988

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QUESTION

• A widowed field mouse leaves her home to escape
  plowing and takes her sick son, Timothy, with
  her. Name this Newbery Medal-winning novel by
  Robert C. O'Brien about intelligent rodents.

116
ANSWER

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• 1972

117
QUESTION

• Salamanca Tree Middle packs up and moves with
  her father from Bybanks, Kentucky, to Euclid,
  Ohio. When her grandparents decide to go on a
  road trip to Idaho, Salamanca goes with them in
  what Newbery Medal novel by Sharon Creech?

118
ANSWER

• Walk Two Moons - 1995

119
QUESTION

• In Jacob Have I Loved, Sara Louise Bradshaw
  seeks to find an identity outside her sister's
  shadow. Name the author of this 1981 Newbery
  Medal winner.

120
ANSWER

• Katherine Paterson
• 1981

121
QUESTION

• In what tale of 13th century England does Nelly
  support her family by selling live eels?

122
ANSWER

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
• Voices from a Medieval Village 2008

123
QUESTION

• It starts with the origin of life on Earth and
  ends with, quote, "The Last Fifty Years,
  Including Several Explanations and an Apology."
  Give the title of the first Newbery Medal-winning
  book, honored in 1922.

124
ANSWER

• The Story of Mankind 1922

125
QUESTION

• In the book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
  Basil E. Frankweiler, Jamie and Claudia stay at
  the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They become
  fascinated with a statue that people suspect had
  been sculpted by what artist?

126
ANSWER

• Michelangelo
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
  Frankweiler 1968

127
QUESTION

• In William Armstrongs Newbery Award-winning
  book, what was the name of the familys dog?

128
ANSWER

• Sounder 1970

129
QUESTION

• Leigh Botts is a young boy who lives with his
  divorced mother and misses his father. The first
  part of the book is a collection of letters
  written from Leigh to his favorite author. Name
  this Newbery Medal winner by Beverly Cleary.

130
ANSWER

• Dear Mr. Henshaw 1984

131
QUESTION

• Meg Murry is transported through time and space
  with her younger brother, Charles Wallace, and
  her friend Calvin OKeef to rescue her father on
  another planet in what Newbery Medal book by
  Madeleine LEngle?

132
ANSWER

• A Wrinkle in Time 1963

133
QUESTION

• In Esther Forbes 1944 Newbery Medal
  award-winning book, Johnny Tremain was an
  apprentice in what trade?

134
ANSWER

• Silversmith
• Johnny Tremain - 1944

135
QUESTION

• Homecoming is the first of seven novels in this
  Newbery Medal-winning author's Tillerman Cycle.
  Name her.

136
ANSWER

• Cynthia Voight
• 
  1983