Newbery Honor Books

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

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Book cover for "Pictures of Hollis Woods"
Star rating for Pictures of Hollis Woods
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1 stars
Description:
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
Book cover for "The Wednesday wars"
Star rating for The Wednesday wars
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.