Newbery Honor Books

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

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Book cover for "One crazy summer"
Star rating for One crazy summer
Series:
Gaither sisters volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicatedpoet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Book cover for "The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963"
Star rating for The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.