Newberry Award Winners


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Book cover for "Kira-kira"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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.
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe and inspire everyone around him.
Book cover for "M.C. Higgins, the great"
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3 stars
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As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. 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.
Book cover for "Merci Suárez changes gears"
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Merci Suarez volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Merci Suárez begins the sixth grade and knows things will change, but she did not count on her grandfather acting strangely, not fitting in at her private school, and dealing with Edna Santos' jealousy.
Book cover for "The midwife's apprentice"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
From the Publisher: From the author of "Catherine, Called Birdy" comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England. The girl known only as Brat has no family, no home, and no future until she meets Jane the Midwife and becomes her apprentice. As she helps the sharp-tempered Jane deliver babies, Brat-who renames herself Alyce-gains knowledge, confidence, and the courage to want something from life: "A full belly, a contented heart, and a place...
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After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.
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3.3 stars
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Miss Hickory's fight for survival in a deserted New Hampshire town with only animals for company--Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog Miss Hickory, a country woman with an applewood twig body and a hickory nut head, survives a New Hampshire winter in the company of Crow, Bullfrog, and Groundhog.
Book cover for "Missing May"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
Book cover for "Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh"
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5 stars
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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. With nowhere else to turn, a field mouse asks the clever escaped lab rats living under the rosebush to help save her son, who lies in the path of the farmer's tractor, too ill to be moved.
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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The friendship between Andy and the elderly Onion John, an immigrant handyman, becomes strained when Andy's father tries to change the old man's ways. His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
Book cover for "Out of the dust"
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4.5 stars
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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.
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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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.
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Jeff Bussey, a Union volunteer, sees the Civil War from both sides when he is sent to spy on Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee raiders.
Book cover for "Roller skates"
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Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.
Book cover for "Sarah, plain and tall"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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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.
Book cover for "Secret of the Andes"
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Average Rating:
2.7 stars
Description:
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
Book cover for "Shadow of a bull"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
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.

39. Sounder

Book cover for "Sounder"
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Average Rating:
2.7 stars
Description:
A young African-American boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope. 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...
Book cover for "The summer of the swans"
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3 stars
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A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost. A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.