Newbery Medal Books at Howard County Library

--and now Miguel /

Author: Krumgold, Joseph,
ISBN: 0690091184;0690046960;006440143;9780064401432
Year: 1953
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - New Mexico - Fiction.
Call number: JF KRU

Adam of the road /

Author: Gray, Elizabeth Janet.
ISBN: 0670104353;014032464
Year: 1970
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Great Britain - History - 1066-1485 - Fiction. - England - Civilization - Newbery Medal. - Middle Ages
Call number: JF GRA

Amos Fortune, free man /

Author: Yates, Elizabeth,
ISBN: 0525255702;9780140341584
Year: 1950
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
Subjects: Slaves. - African Americans - Biography. - Newbery Medal. - Fortune, Amos,
Call number: JB FORTUNE Y

Amos Fortune, free man : [Korean translation] /

Author: Yates, Elizabeth,
ISBN: 9788934928126
Year: 2008
Date added: 02/23/2012
Summary: The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
Subjects: World language collection - Korean. - Fortune, Amos, - Korean language materials. - African Americans - Biography. - Slaves. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JB(Kor)FORTUNE Y

Bridge to Terabithia /

Author: Paterson, Katherine.
ISBN: 0690013590;0690046359;0590132008;9780061227288;0061227285;9780690046359;9780690013597;9780064401845;0064401847
Year: 1977
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Virginia - Fiction. - Schools - Death - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF PAT

The bronze bow /

Author: Speare, Elizabeth George
ISBN: 0395071135;0395877695;0395137195;9780395137192
Year: 1961
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Palestine - Fiction. - Jesus Christ
Call number: JF SPE

Caddie Woodlawn /

Author: Brink, Carol Ryrie,
ISBN: 0689713703;0689815212;9780689815218;9780027136708;0027136701
Year: 1973
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - Wisconsin - Fiction. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF BRI

Call it courage /

Author: Sperry, Armstrong,
ISBN: 0689713916;9780689713910;9780027860306;0027860302
Year: 1940
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Oceania - Fiction. - Polynesia - Folklore - Polynesia. - Courage - Fiction - Survival
Call number: JF SPE

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch /

Author: Latham, Jean Lee.
ISBN: 0395068819;0395137136;0618250743;9780618250745;9780618250813
Year: 1955
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
Subjects: Bowditch, Nathaniel, - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Navigation
Call number: JF LAT

The cat who went to heaven /

Author: Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane,
ISBN: 0689714335;9780027197105;0027197107
Year: 1958
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Fairy tales. - Newbery Medal. - Cats - Fiction. - Japan
Call number: JF COA

Crispin : the cross of lead /

Author: Avi,
ISBN: 0786808284;9780786816583;0786816589;9780786808281
Year: 2002
Date added: 06/05/2002
Summary: Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
Subjects: Great Britain - History - Edward III, 1327-1377 - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Identity - Fiction - Orphans - Middle Ages
Call number: JF AVI

The dark frigate /

Author: Hawes, Charles Boardman,
ISBN: 0316350966;9780316350099
Year: 1971
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.
Subjects: Sea stories. - Newbery Medal. - Pirates - Fiction.
Call number: JF HAW

Dead end in Norvelt /

Author: Gantos, Jack.
ISBN: 9780374379933
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/05/2011
Summary: In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted pro
Subjects: Old age - Fiction. - Behavior - Newbery Medal. - Norvelt (Pa.) - History - 20th century
Call number: YA GAN

Dear Mr. Henshaw /

Author: Cleary, Beverly
ISBN: 0688024068;068802405;9780380709588;0380709589;9780688024055
Year: 1983
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Divorce - Fiction. - Parent and child - Schools
Call number: JF CLE

Doctor De Soto /

Author: Steig, William,
ISBN: 9780439736244;9780374318031
Year: 2003
Date added: 08/16/2010
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: JCDBK E STE

The door in the wall /

Author: De Angeli, Marguerite,
ISBN: 038507283;0440227798;9780440402831;9780440227793
Year: 1989
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
Subjects: Great Britain - History - Edward III, 1327-1377 - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Middle Ages - People with disabilities
Call number: JF DEA

The family under the bridge /

Author: Carlson, Natalie Savage.
ISBN: 0060209917;9780064402507;0064402509
Year: 1958
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Paris (France) - Fiction. - Tramps
Call number: JF CAR

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler /

Author: Konigsburg, E. L.
ISBN: 0689205864;0689853548;9780689711817;068985322;9781416949756;1416949755;9780689853227;0689711816
Year: 1967
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Runaways
Call number: JF KON

A gathering of days : a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel /

Author: Blos, Joan W.
ISBN: 0684163403;068971419;9780684163406;9780689714191
Year: 1979
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Subjects: New England - History - 19th century - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - New Hampshire
Call number: JF BLO

Gay-Neck : the story of a pigeon /

Author: Mukerji, Dhan Gopal,
ISBN: 0525304002;9780525304005
Year: 1954
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Homing pigeons - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Pigeons
Call number: JF MUK

Ginger Pye /

Author: Estes, Eleanor,
ISBN: 0152309306;0152309330;0152024999;0152025057;9780152025052;9780152024994
Year: 1979
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When the Pye family's puppy, Ginger, disappears on Thanksgiving Day, the children are convinced that he has been adbucted by a stranger in a yellow hat.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Family life - Fiction. - Dogs
Call number: JF EST

Good masters! Sweet ladies! : voices from a medieval village /

Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy.
ISBN: 9780763615789
Year: 2007
Date added: 09/26/2007
Summary: A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Middle Ages - Drama. - Monologues. - Plays.
Call number: J812.6S

The graveyard book /

Author: Gaiman, Neil.
ISBN: 9780060530921;9780060530938
Year: 2008
Date added: 10/02/2008
Summary: Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Subjects: Dead - Fiction. - Cemeteries - Newbery Medal. - Supernatural
Call number: JF GAI

The grey king /

Author: Cooper, Susan.
ISBN: 0689500297;9781416949671;9780689500299;9780689829840;0689829841
Year: 1975
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.
Subjects: Wales - Fiction. - Fantasy. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF COO

The higher power of Lucky

Author: Patron, Susan,
ISBN: 9781615871193;1615871195
Year: 2011
Date added: 12/08/2011
Summary: Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Subjects: Abandoned children - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Talking books for children. - Interpersonal relations - Runaways
Call number: DAB JF PAT

The higher power of Lucky /

Author: Patron, Susan.
ISBN: 9781416901945;1416901949
Year: 2006
Date added: 01/23/2007
Summary: Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Subjects: Abandoned children - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Interpersonal relations - Runaways
Call number: JF PAT

Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow /

Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
ISBN: 0439353793
Year: 2005
Date added: 02/17/2006
Subjects: Hitler-Jugend. - National socialism and youth. - Jewish youth - Germany - History - 20th century. - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany. - Jewish children in the Holocaust. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: 943.086B

Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow /

Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
ISBN: 0439353793
Year: 2005
Date added: 04/11/2006
Subjects: Hitler-Jugend. - National socialism. - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J943.086B

Hitty : her first hundred years /

Author: Field, Rachel,
ISBN: 0027348407;0689822847;9780027348408;9780689822841
Year: 1929
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. Hitty, or Mehitable as she was really named, was made in the early 1800s for Phoebe Preble, a little girl from Maine. This is the story of Hitty's years with Phoebe, and the many that follow in the life of a w
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Dolls - Fiction. - Maine
Call number: JF FIE

Holes /

Author: Sachar, Louis,
ISBN: 0440419468;0374332657;9780374332662;9780440414803;0440414806
Year: 1998
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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 correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency - Fiction. - Homeless persons - Buried treasure - Newbery Medal. - Friendship
Call number: JF SAC

Holes /

Author: Sachar, Louis,
ISBN: 9780374332662;0374332665;044022859
Year: 2008
Date added: 05/18/2004
Summary: 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 correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency - Fiction. - Homeless persons - Buried treasure - Newbery Medal. - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA SAC

I, Juan de Pareja /

Author: Trevino, Elizabeth Borton de,
ISBN: 0374335311;0374435251;9780374335311
Year: 1965
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Artists - Fiction - Newbery Medal. - Blacks - History - Fiction. - Pareja, Juan de, - Velazquez, Diego, - Spain
Call number: JF TRE

It's like this, Cat /

Author: Neville, Emily Cheney.
ISBN: 0060243910;0064400735;0060243902;9780064400732
Year: 1963
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Cats - Fiction.
Call number: JF NEV

Jacob have I loved /

Author: Paterson, Katherine.
ISBN: 0690040784;0690040792;0064403688;9780690040784
Year: 1980
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) - Fiction. - Maryland - Fiction - Brothers and sisters - Twins
Call number: YA PAT

Johnny Tremain : a novel for old & young /

Author: Forbes, Esther.
ISBN: 0395067669;0440442508;9780395067666;9780547614328
Year: 1943
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Boston (Mass.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Fiction. - United States
Call number: JF FOR

Joyful noise : poems for two voices /

Author: Fleischman, Paul.
ISBN: 0060218533;0064460932;0060218525;9780064460934
Year: 1988
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
Subjects: American poetry. - Newbery Medal. - Insects - Poetry.
Call number: J811.5F

King of the Wind /

Author: Henry, Marguerite,
ISBN: 0027436292;0689714866;9781416927860;9780027436297
Year: 1948
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Traces the abuses and triumphs of the Arabian stallion who became a founding sire of the Thoroughbred breed, and of the mute Arabian boy who tended him as long as he lived.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Arabian Peninsula - Fiction. - Horses
Call number: JF HEN

Kira-kira /

Author: Kadohata, Cynthia.
ISBN: 9780689856396;0689856393
Year: 2004
Date added: 06/02/2004
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Georgia - History - 20th century - Fiction. - Japanese Americans - Sisters - Death - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA KAD

Lincoln : a photobiography /

Author: Freedman, Russell.
ISBN: 9780899193809;0899193803
Year: 1987
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Presidents - Lincoln, Abraham,
Call number: JB LINCOLN F

M.C. Higgins, the great /

Author: Hamilton, Virginia.
ISBN: 0027424804;9780689830747;0689830742;9780030546563;068971964;9781416914075
Year: 1974
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Family life
Call number: JF HAM

Maniac Magee : a novel /

Author: Spinelli, Jerry.
ISBN: 0316807222;0316809063;9780316807227;0064404242
Year: 1990
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Subjects: City and town life - Fiction. - City children - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF SPI

The midwife's apprentice /

Author: Cushman, Karen.
ISBN: 006440630;9780395692295;0395692296;9780547722177;9780064406307
Year: 1995
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
Subjects: Midwives - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Middle Ages
Call number: JF CUS

Millions of cats /

Author: Gag, Wanda,
ISBN: 9780439734967;9780399233159;0399233156;043972290
Year: 1956
Date added: 01/12/2012
Summary: How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions?
Subjects: Cats - Fiction. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JCDBK E GAG

Miss Hickory /

Author: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin,
ISBN: 0670479403;014030956;9780670479405
Year: 1946
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Country life - Fiction. - Dolls
Call number: JF BAI

Moon over Manifest /

Author: Vanderpool, Clare.
ISBN: 9780385738835
Year: 2010
Date added: 11/19/2010
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Subjects: Depressions - 1929 - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Kansas - Fathers - Secrets
Call number: JF VAN

Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH /

Author: O'Brien, Robert C.
ISBN: 0689206518;0689710682;9780689710681;9780689206511
Year: 1971
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Rats - Fiction. - Mice
Call number: JF O'BR

Number the stars

Author: Lowry, Lois.
ISBN: 9780739375136
Year: 2007
Date added: 09/03/2008
Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Denmark - Fiction. - Jews - Rescue - Friendship - Fiction - Newbery Medal. - Talking books for children
Call number: DAB JF LOW

Number the stars /

Author: Lowry, Lois.
ISBN: 0395510600;0440403278;9780440227533;9780547577098;9780395510605;9780440403272
Year: 1989
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Denmark - Fiction. - Jews - Rescue - Newbery Medal. - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF LOW

The one and only Ivan /

Author: Applegate, Katherine.
ISBN: 9780061992254
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/23/2012
Summary: When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
Subjects: Animals - Treatment - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Gorilla - Elephants
Call number: JF APP

Onion John /

Author: Krumgold, Joseph,
ISBN: 0064401448;9780690046984;9780064401449
Year: 1959
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Fathers and sons - Fiction. - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF KRU

Out of the dust /

Author: Hesse, Karen.
ISBN: 0590360809;0590371258;9780590360807
Year: 1997
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Subjects: Depressions - 1929 - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Oklahoma - Poetry - Farm life - Dust storms
Call number: JF HES

Pictures of Hollis Woods /

Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly.
ISBN: 0385326556;9780440415787;0440415780
Year: 2002
Date added: 10/02/2002
Summary: A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
Subjects: Old age - Fiction. - Artists - Orphans - Newbery Medal. - Families - Foster home care - New York (State)
Call number: JF GIF

Rabbit Hill /

Author: Lawson, Robert,
ISBN: 0670586757;9780140310108;014031010
Year: 1972
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Animals - Fiction
Call number: JF LAW

Rifles for Watie

Author: Keith, Harold,
ISBN: 9781436113236;1436113237
Year: 2008
Date added: 09/09/2008
Summary: With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union Forces. After enlisting he discovers that the life of a soldier brings little glory and honor.
Subjects: Young adult talking books. - Newbery Medal. - Watie, Stand, - Fiction. - United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865
Call number: DAB YA KEI

Rifles for Watie /

Author: Keith, Harold,
ISBN: 0690049072;006447030;9780064470308
Year: 1957
Date added: 01/10/2013
Summary: Jeff Bussey, a young farmer, joins the Union volunteers, and becomes a scout and soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and lives to tell about it.
Subjects: Watie, Stand, - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865
Call number: YA KEI

Roll of thunder, hear my cry /

Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
ISBN: 0803774737;0140384510;0803726473;9780140348934;014034893
Year: 1976
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
Subjects: Race awareness - Fiction. - African Americans - Newbery Medal. - Prejudices
Call number: JF TAY

Sarah, plain and tall

Author: MacLachlan, Patricia.
ISBN: 9781602527904;1602527903
Year: 2007
Date added: 08/29/2008
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Historical fiction. - Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction - Talking books for children - Stepmothers - Fiction.
Call number: DAB JF MACLA

Sarah, plain and tall /

Author: MacLachlan, Patricia.
ISBN: 0060241020;9780060241018;0060241012;0064402053;9780064402057
Year: 1985
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction. - Stepmothers
Call number: JF MACLA

Sarah, plain and tall /

Author: MacLachlan, Patricia.
ISBN: 0786280646;9780786280643
Year: 2005
Date added: 08/25/2008
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Large type books for children. - Newbery Medal. - Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction - Stepmothers - Fiction.
Call number: JLP MACLA

Secret of the Andes /

Author: Clark, Ann Nolan,
ISBN: 0670629758;0785772456;0140309268
Year: 1952
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Peru - Fiction. - Incas
Call number: JF CLA

Shadow of a bull /

Author: Wojciechowska, Maia,
ISBN: 9781416933953;1416933956;9780689300424;0689300425
Year: 1964
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Bullfights - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Spain
Call number: JF WOJ

Shiloh /

Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
ISBN: 0689316143;0689835833;9780689316142;9780689835827;0689835825
Year: 1991
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Animals - Treatment - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Dogs - West Virginia
Call number: JF NAY

A single shard /

Author: Park, Linda Sue.
ISBN: 0395978270;0440418518;9780547534268
Year: 2001
Date added: 04/18/2001
Summary: Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
Subjects: Pottery - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Korea
Call number: JF PAR

The slave dancer : a novel /

Author: Fox, Paula.
ISBN: 0878880623;0027355608;0440404029;9781416971399
Year: 1973
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Slave trade - Fiction. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF FOX

Sounder

Author: Armstrong, William Howard,
ISBN: 9781605149745
Year: 2008
Date added: 09/03/2008
Summary: 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 and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Family life - Talking books for children - Dogs - Poverty
Call number: DAB JF ARM

Sounder /

Author: Armstrong, William Howard,
ISBN: 0060201444;0060201436;9780064400206;0064400204;9780060201432
Year: 1969
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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 and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Family life - Dogs - Poverty
Call number: JF ARM

Sounder /

Author: Armstrong, William Howard,
ISBN: 078627915;9780786279159
Year: 2005
Date added: 08/25/2008
Summary: 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 and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
Subjects: Large type books for children. - African Americans - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Family life - Dogs - Poverty
Call number: JLP ARM

The story of mankind /

Author: Van Loon, Hendrik Willem,
ISBN: 9780871401755;9780554370255
Year: 2000
Date added: 08/01/2011
Summary: Winner of the first John Newbery Medal in 1921, here is van Loon's renowned classic record of historic adventure.
Subjects: World history. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: J909V

Strawberry girl /

Author: Lenski, Lois,
ISBN: 039730109;0397301103;9780397301096;9780064405850;0064405850
Year: 1945
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Farm life - Florida - Fiction. - Country life - History - 20th century
Call number: JF LEN

The summer of the swans /

Author: Byars, Betsy Cromer.
ISBN: 0670681903;9780140314205;0140314202;9780142401149;0142401145
Year: 1970
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - People with mental disabilities - Fiction.
Call number: JF BYA

The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread /

Author: DiCamillo, Kate.
ISBN: 0763617229;9780763625290;0763625299;9780763617226
Year: 2003
Date added: 09/04/2003
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Fairy tales. - Fantasy. - Newbery Medal. - Mice - Fiction.
Call number: JF DIC

The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread /

Author: DiCamillo, Kate.
ISBN: 9781410415271;1410415279
Year: 2004
Date added: 06/14/2010
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Fairy tales. - Large type books for children. - Fantasy. - Newbery Medal. - Mice - Fiction.
Call number: JLP DIC

Thimble summer /

Author: Enright, Elizabeth,
ISBN: 0030156866;0805003061;0440486815;9780312380021
Year: 1938
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Wisconsin - Fiction. - Farm life
Call number: JF ENR

The trumpeter of Krakow /

Author: Kelly, Eric Philbrook,
ISBN: 002750140;0689715714;9780689715716
Year: 1966
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Poland - History - Casimir IV, 1447-1492 - Fiction. - Middle Ages
Call number: JF KEL

The twenty-one balloons /

Author: Pe`ne du Bois, William,
ISBN: 0140320970;0670734411
Year: 1947
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Balloons - Fiction. - Voyages and travels - Krakatoa (Indonesia) - Eruption, 1883.
Call number: JF DUB

The view from Saturday /

Author: Konigsburg, E. L.
ISBN: 0689817215;0439078237;9780689809934;068980993
Year: 1996
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Contests - Fiction - People with disabilities - Fiction. - Teacher-student relationships - Schools - Friendship
Call number: JF KON

A visit to William Blake's inn : poems for innocent and experienced travelers /

Author: Willard, Nancy.
ISBN: 0152938222
Year: 1981
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn.
Subjects: Blake, William, - American poetry. - Newbery Medal. - Caldecott Medal.
Call number: J811.5W

Walk two moons /

Author: Creech, Sharon.
ISBN: 0060233370;9780060233341;0060233346;9780064405171;0064405176;0060560134
Year: 1994
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Family life - Fiction. - Grandparents - Friendship - Death
Call number: JF CRE

Waterless mountain /

Author: Armer, Laura Adams,
ISBN: 067984502
Year: 1931
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Navajo Indians - Fiction. - Indians of North America - Southwest, New
Call number: JF AR

The Westing game /

Author: Raskin, Ellen.
ISBN: 0525423206;0525471375;0140386645;014240120;9780140386646
Year: 1978
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: 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.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: JF RAS

The wheel on the school /

Author: DeJong, Meindert,
ISBN: 0060215852;0060215860;0064400212;9780064400213;9780060215859
Year: 1954
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Netherlands - Fiction. - Storks
Call number: JF DEJ

When you reach me /

Author: Stead, Rebecca.
ISBN: 9780385737425
Year: 2009
Date added: 08/18/2009
Summary: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of t
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) - History. - 1951- - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Space and time
Call number: YA STE

When you reach me /

Author: Stead, Rebecca.
ISBN: 9780385737425
Year: 2009
Date added: 05/12/2010
Summary: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of t
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - New York (N.Y.) - History - 1951- - Fiction. - Space and time
Call number: JF STE

The whipping boy /

Author: Fleischman, Sid,
ISBN: 0688062164;0816710384;9780688062163;9780060521226;0060521228
Year: 1986
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Adventure and adventurers - Fiction. - Robbers and outlaws
Call number: JF FLE

The white stag /

Author: Seredy, Kate.
ISBN: 0670763756;9780140312584;0140312587
Year: 1937
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Retells the legendary story of the Huns and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home.
Subjects: Fairy tales. - Fantasy. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF SER

The witch of Blackbird Pond /

Author: Speare, Elizabeth George.
ISBN: 0395071143;9780440495963;0440495962;9780395071144
Year: 1958
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Connecticut - Fiction. - Puritans - Witchcraft
Call number: JF SPE

A wrinkle in time

Author: L'Engle, Madeleine.
ISBN: 9780739375693;0739375695
Year: 2006
Date added: 08/28/2008
Summary: Young Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three eccentric women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Space and time - Fiction. - Talking books for children. - Science fiction.
Call number: DAB JF L'EN

A wrinkle in time /

Author: L'Engle, Madeleine.
ISBN: 0374386137;0440498058;9780374386139;9780312367558;0312367554
Year: 1962
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Subjects: Science fiction. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF L'EN

A year down yonder /

Author: Peck, Richard,
ISBN: 0803725183;9780142300701;0142300705
Year: 2000
Date added: 01/16/2001
Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Subjects: Illinois - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Country life - Grandmothers
Call number: JF PEC

Young Fu of the upper Yangtze /

Author: Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman,
ISBN: 0805081135;9780805081138
Year: 2007
Date added: 05/10/2007
Summary: In the 1920's, a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - City and town life - China - Fiction. - Fiction
Call number: JF LEW