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Newbery Medal and Honor Books to 1960
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Best children's books chosen by the American Library Association. complete list back to 1922 54 listings found. Displaying 1 - 20 |
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1960 Krumgold, Joseph Onion John His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father. 1959 Children's Fiction Book KRUMGOLD |
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1961 O'Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. 1960 Children's Fiction Book O'DELL |
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1962 Speare, Elizabeth George The Bronze Bow 1961 Children's Fiction Book SPEARE |
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1963 L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time Meg Murray and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. 1962 Children's Fiction Book L'ENGLE |
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1964 Neville, Emily Cheney It's Like This Cat 1963 Children's Fiction Book NEVILLE |
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1965 Wojciechowska, Maia Shadow of a Bull Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor. 1970 Children's Fiction Book WOJCIECHO |
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1966 Trevi~no, Elizabeth Borton de I Juan De Pareja Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Juan de Pareja, a young slave who grew to become an assistant to the painter Velasquez. 1965 Children's Fiction Book TREVINO |
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1967 Hunt, Irene Up a Road Slowly After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen. 1966 Children's Fiction Book HUNT |
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1968 Konigsburg, E. L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Claudia and her brother run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she sees a statue so beautiful, she must identify its sculptor. To find out, she must visit the statue's former owner, the elderly Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. 1967 Children's Fiction Book KONIGSBUR |
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1969 Alexander, Lloyd The High King In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero. 1999 Children's Fiction Book ALEXANDER |
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1970 Armstrong, William Howard Sounder Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young Black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read. 1969 Children's Fiction Book ARMSTRONG |
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1971 Byars, Betsy Cromer The Summer of the Swans A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost. 1970 Teen Fiction Book BYARS |
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1972 O'Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. 1971 Children's Fiction Book O'BRIEN |
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1973 George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. 1972 Teen Fiction Book GEORGE |
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1974 Fox, Paula The Slave Dancer Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. 1973 Children's Fiction Book FOX |
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1975 Hamilton, Virginia M.C. Higgins the Great As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. 1974 Teen Fiction Book HAMILTON |
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1976 Cooper, Susan The Grey King Visiting in Wales, Will Stanton is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient sleepers. 1975 Teen Fiction Book COOPER |
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1977 Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry A Black family living in the South during the 1930's is faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand. 1976 Teen Fiction Book TAYLOR |
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1978 Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia Jess' life expands when he becomes friends with Leslie, a girl from the city who opens doors to culture and imaginative play. But then tragedy strikes. 1977 Children's Fiction Book PATERSON |
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1979 Raskin, Ellen 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. 1978 Children's Fiction Book RASKIN |
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