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Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1971
Edition
[1st ed.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1972. 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.
7) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Criss cross
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 2006. Teenagers in a small town experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
11) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1984. 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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
An afternoon of readings and lively discussion with contemporary authors, including Blue Balliett (Chasing Vermeer), Chris Grabenstein (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library), Wendy Mass (The Candymakers), and Alexander London (The Wild Ones) who have been inspired by E. L. Konigsburg's Newbery Award-winning classic about a sister and brother who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and find themselves caught up in a mysterious adventure.
14) Dicey's song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1983. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
16) Strawberry girl
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
n.d
Edition
Reprint.
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery Medal, 1946. A girl who lives on a strawberry farm in Florida has dreams of an education that will include playing the organ.
17) A single shard
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Kira-kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1985. 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 myst
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery Medal, 1963. A story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin O'Keefe. They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.