Newbery Medal Winners

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1. Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

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Author:
Latham, Jean Lee
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Description:
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."