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The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson, a 1979 Newbery Honor, is such a sweet book with wonderfully sweet characters. Gilly Hopkins is going to stay with me for a long time. Gilly’s...
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Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry is the 1940 Newbery Medal winner. Set in the Polynesian Islands before the traders and missionaries first came to the South Seas, it is the story of Mafatu who is...
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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is the perfect realistic fiction book with a fantasy twist. It’s a mystery too. As well as a coming of age, friendship book. In fact, When You Reach Me dabbles a...
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Breaking News: ALA Announces 2010 Youth Media Awards Including Newbery,...
Yes, I’m the crazy one who woke up at 5:30 in the morning to listen to the awards announcements! Can we say excited?!!! Glad I’m not the only one who woke up crazy. Twitter was full of excitement. The...
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
Do you know who Claudette Colvin is? You do know that Rosa Parks wasn’t the first person to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, don’t you? Read Claudette Colvin:...
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After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson is a beautiful book. Woodson continues to not disappoint me. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again but I’m a Woodson fan girl. At the heart of...
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All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop is the 1954 Newbery Honor. Ten-year-old Marcel is entrusted with his family’s cows for the entire summer on the high French Alp mountain tops. Entirely alone. He...
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The Door in the Wall by Marquerite de Angeli
Written in 1949, The Door in the Wall by Marquerite de Angeli won the 1950 Newbery Medal. To tell you the truth, I don’t have much to say about the book except that I read it. And I liked it. I...
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The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Winner of the 1971 Newbery Medal, The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars is the story of the longest day of 14-year-old Sara’s life. Her summer has already been awful and boring, she thinks that her...
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A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
A lot of Newbery reviews this past week. A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant is a Newbery Honor book from 1987. This is one of those books which has benefited from a face lift. Sadly, the book that...
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