Newberry Award Winners


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Book cover for "The grey king"
Star rating for The grey king
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers. A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark.
Book cover for "The high king"
Star rating for The high king
Series:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Hitty"
Star rating for Hitty
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Hitty, a doll carved from mountain ash in the nineteenth century writes the story of her eventful life from the security of an antique-shop window. Her career, begun in a quiet Maine village, is crowded with adventures, and she gives lively doll's-eye glimpses of the widely differing places and people that she encounters during her hundred years, and of the manners and modes of her times.
Book cover for "M.C. Higgins, the great"
Star rating for M.C. Higgins, the great
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
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 "Missing May"
Star rating for Missing May
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
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 "Rabbit hill"
Star rating for Rabbit hill
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
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.

7. Shiloh

Book cover for "Shiloh"
Star rating for Shiloh
Series:
Shiloh quartet volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
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.