Newbery Honor Books

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

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Series:
Queen's thief volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
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Series:
Tupelo Landing volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, the only passenger, and the only female aboard a seedy ship on a transatlantic voyage from England to America in 1832, becomes caught up in a feud between the murderous captain and his mutinous crew. Accused and convicted of murder, Charlotte decides to reveal what really happened aboard the Seahawk
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
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An account of the great African American vocalist which considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. An account of the life of a talented and determined artist who left her mark on musical and social history is drawn from Anderson's own writings and other contemporary accounts.
Book cover for "The war that saved my life"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Book cover for "The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963"
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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.
Book cover for "The Wednesday wars"
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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.
Book cover for "Where the mountain meets the moon"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran.
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Description:
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

72. Wringer

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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Book cover for "The year of Billy Miller"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.