Newbery Honor Books

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

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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Discusses the international competition to create the first atomic bomb.

2. Echo

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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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5 stars
Description:
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.