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.

NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1973.

Katherine Paterson's remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister’s struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and coming of age. --Amazon

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.

NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery Medal winner, 1950. A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Award, 1948.

NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Award, 2002. 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.

NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1957. Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery award, 2001. Sequel to: A long way from Chicago. 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.

After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."