Newbery Honor Books

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

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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.
Book cover for "Carver, a life in poems"
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A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.
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Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.