Newbery Honor Books

The runner ups for each year for the prestigious Newbery Medal award.

Showing 1 - 9 of 9  There are a total of 73 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "26 Fairmount Avenue"
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Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
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4 stars
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Provides an account of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793, discussing the chaos that erupted when people began evacuating in droves, leaving the city without government, goods, or services, and examining efforts by physicians, the Free African Society, and others to cure and care for the sick. Recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing...
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4.3 stars
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Discusses the international competition to create the first atomic bomb.
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4.1 stars
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In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South. Writer Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her childhood in free verse.
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2.7 stars
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Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral but little-known role in the Montgomery bus strike of 1955-1956, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the buscompany.
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3 stars
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A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.
Book cover for "Hitler Youth"
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5 stars
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Explores the various factors which led many of Germany's young people to pledge their loyalty and support to the dictator and join the Hitler Youth during his rise to power.
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An account of the great African American vocalist which considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. An account of the life of a talented and determined artist who left her mark on musical and social history is drawn from Anderson's own writings and other contemporary accounts.
Book cover for "The Wright brothers"
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Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.