Newbery Honor Books

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

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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.