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Adam of the Road
Elizabeth Gray - The Viking press
Format: Book
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A Newbery Medal WinnerAwarded the John Newbery Medal as "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" in the year of its publication. "A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's... |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen... |
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The Giver: With Related Readings
Lois Lowry
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. |
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Missing May
Cynthia Rylant - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living |
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The View from Saturday
E. L. Konigsburg - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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From the Newbery Medal-winning author of the beloved classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes four jewel-like short stories - one for each of the team members of an Academic Bowl team - that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers.. How had Mrs. Olinski... |
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The Story of Mankind
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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First published in 1921 and since translated into 18 languages, "The Story of Mankind" has charmed generations of readers. It begins with the origins of human life and sweeps forward to illuminate all of our pasts. This new version which retains van Loon's pen and ink il |
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Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Dutton
Format: Print book
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Writing out of his own experience as a boy in India, Dhan Gopal Mukerji tells how Gay Neck's master sent his prized pigeon to serve in Word War I, and of how, because of his exceptional training and his brave heart, Gay Neck served his new masters heroically. Winner of the 1928 Newbery... |
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Out Of The Dust
Karen Hesse - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover(1st Edition)
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. |
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Holes
Louis Sachar - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishmentStanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake - it has been dry for over a hundred years... |
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Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Book
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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things... |
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A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Winner of the Newbery Medal "Peck charms readers once again with this entertaining sequel to A Long Way from Chicago" - School Library Journal (starred review) It was within the pages of Richard Peck's Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago that Mary Alice... |
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A single shard
Linda Sue Park - Clarion Books
Format: Book
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In this Newbery Medal-winning book set in 12th century Korea, Tree-ear, a 13-year-old orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter's craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work,... |
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi. - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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H "Avi's plot is engineered for maximum thrills, with twists, turns, and treachery aplenty. . . . A page-turner to delight Avi's fans, it will leave readers hoping for a sequel."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) H " . . . [T]he book is a page-turner from beginning to end . . . [A] meticulously... |
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE enlightens us with a tale of adventure, despair, love, and soup.Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness... |
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Kira-Kira
Cynthia Kadohata - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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A Japanese-American family struggles to build a new life in the Deep South of Georgia in this luminous novel, winner of the Newbery Medal.kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra) : glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira... |
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Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins - Greenwillow Books
Format: Book
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She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found one. Hoping it wasn't too late, she thought the word soon. Meanwhile, in another part of town, he felt as if the world was opening. Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places,... |
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The Higher Power of Lucky (Hard Pan Trilogy)
William Prynne - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Lucky, age ten, cant wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43) , the rock-bottom only choice she has. Its all Brigittes fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians... |
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Laura Amy Schlitz - Candlewick Press
Format: Book
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Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.Maidens, monks, and millers' sons - in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting... |
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident... |
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When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid,... |
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Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign Id seen only in Gideons stories: Manifest - a town with a rich past and a bright future. Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live... |
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Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt Series, 1)
Jack Gantos - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the years best contribution to childrens literature and the Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction!Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named... |
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Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson - Crowell
Format: Print book
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This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss.Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him.... |
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The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin - Dutton Juvenile; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance., |
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Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson - HarperTeen
Format: Library Binding
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"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated . . ." With her grandmothers taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone loved.Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island in the early 1940s,... |
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Dicey's Song
Cynthia Voigt - Atheneum; y First printing edition
Format: Audiobook
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At the beginning of summer, Momma had abandoned them and them later been traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing. So Dicey Tillerman, her brothers James and Sammy, and her sister Maybeth had spent the summer on their own on a long and difficult journey to find a home... |
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary - Morrow
Format: Print book
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Beverly Cleary's Newbery Medal-winning book explores the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy, Leigh Botts, in letter form as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal... |
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The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley
Format: Hardcover
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Robin McKinley's mesmerizing history of Damar is the stuff that legends are made of. The Hero and the Crown is a dazzling "prequel" to The Blue Sword.Aerin is the only child of the king of Damar, and should be his rightful heir. But she is also the daughter of |
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan - HarperTrophy
Format: Print book
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"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna."Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too."This Newbery Medal-winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family. Set in the late nineteenth... |
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The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman - Greenwillow Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A shout comes echoing up the stairway "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now? It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy... |
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Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. This Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil War president is warm, appealing, and illustrated with dozens of carefully chosen photographs and prints.Russell Freedman begins with a lively... |
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Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Paul Fleischman - Harper & Row
Format: Print book
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Written to be read aloud by two voices - sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous--here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds... |
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles... |
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Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)
Jerry Spinelli - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs.. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadnt made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years,... |
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Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. Sometimes he takes his .22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on a rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer.... |
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Walk Two Moons (Newbery Medal Book)
Sharon Creech
Format: Book
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In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree... |
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The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. -from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35) |
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A wrinkle in time
Madeleine L'Engle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, soon to be a major motion picture.It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most... |
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It's Like This, Cat
Emily Cheney Neville
Format: Library Binding
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My father is always talking about how a dog can be very educational for a boy. This is one reason I got a cat.Dave Mitchell and his father yell at each other a lot, and whenever the fighting starts, Dave's mother gets an asthma attack. That's when Dave storms out of the |
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Shadow of a Bull
Maia Wojciechowska
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Manolo Olivar was the son of his father. Which may not seem like a necessary thing to say. But in Manolo's case it is. For his father had been Juan Olivar, the greatest bullfighter in all Spain. And Manolo was his son in two special ways: one, he looked just like his father; and t |
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I, Juan de Pareja
Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
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Winner of the 1966 Newbery MedalAn ALA Notable BookA New York Times Best Juvenile Book of the YearJuan is the slave of the great Spanish painter Diego Valazquez and helps his master in his studio by preparing paints and stretching canvases. But Juan is an ar |
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Up a Road Slowly
Irene Hunt - Berkley; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen. |
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: 35th Anniversary Edition
E L Konigsburg - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away....She didn't like discomfort....Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. To a large place, a comfortable place, an indoor place,... |
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The High King (The Chronicles of Prydain)
Lloyd Alexander - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Unabridged]
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Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess;... |
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Sounder
William H Armstrong - Professional Services Center for the Visually Handicapped
Format: Book
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Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Sounder, and the poor sharecroppers who own him. During the difficult years of the nineteenth century South, an African-American boy and his poor family rarely have enough to eat. Each night,... |
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The Summer of the Swans
Betsy Cromer Byars - Professional Services Center for the Visually Handicapped [Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction
Format: Book
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A Newbery Medal WinnerAll summer Sara Godfrey has fretted over herself, her impossible body, her terrible new haircut. One moment she's elated, the next, she's in tears. And she can't figure out why. Maybe her wildly changing moods are tied to the sudden and unaccountable appearance of the swans,... |
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. |
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Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
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Jean Craighead George's Newbery Medal-winning classic about an Eskimo girl lost on the Alaskan tundra now features bonus content. This edition, perfect for classroom or home use, includes John Schoenherr's original scratchboard illustrations throughout, as well as extra materia |
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The Slave Dancer
Paula Fox - Bradbury Pr
Format: Hardcover
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Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. |
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M.C. Higgins the Great
Virginia Hamilton - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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M.C.'s family is rooted to the slopes of Sarah's Mountain. His great-grandmother escaped to the mountain as a runaway slave and made it her home. It bears her name, and her descendants have lived there ever since. When M.C. looks out from atop the gleaming forty-foot pole that... |
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The Grey King
Susan Cooper - Margaret K. McElderry Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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There is a Welsh legend about a harp of gold, hidden within a certain hill, that will be found by a boy and a white dog with silver eyes -- a dog that can see the wind. Will Stanton knew nothing of this when he came to Wales to recover from a severe illness. But when he met Bran, the strange... |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor - Dial; Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 1977 Newbery Medal, this is a remarkably moving novel--one that has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one familys struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face... |
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Rabbit Hill
Robert Lawson - Viking Press
Format: Print book
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It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the animals of the Hill are very excited about the new Folks moving in, and they wonder how things are going to change. It's only a matter of time before... |
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Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski - Lippincott
Format: Print book
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Birdie Boyer was a Florida Cracker. She belonged to a large "strawberry family," who lived on a flatwoods farm in the lake section of the state. They raised strawberries for a living.Through all the hazards of the uncertain crop -- battling against dry weather and grass fires,... |
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Miss Hickory
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey - Viking Press
Format: Hardcover
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head. |
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The Twenty-One Balloons
William Pene du Bois - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Professor William Waterman Sherman just wants to be alone. So he decides to take a year off and spend it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon the likes of which no one has ever seen. But when he is found after just three weeks floating in the Atlantic among the wreckage of twenty... |
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King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
Marguerite Henry
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Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. |
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Ginger Pye
Eleanor Estes
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When the Pye family's puppy, Ginger, disappears on Thanksgiving Day, the children are convinced that he has been adbucted by a stranger in a yellow hat. |
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Jean Lee Latham - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Paperback
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The story of a boy who had the persistence to master navigation in the days when men sailed by "log, lead, and lookout," and who authored The American Practical Navigator, "the sailor's Bible." |
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Rifles for Watie
Harold Keith
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Winner of the Newbery Medal An ALA Notable Children's Book Winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Just sixteen, Jefferson Davis Bussey can't wait to leave his Kansas farm and defend the Union against Colonel Watie, leader of the dreaded Cherokee Indian rebels. |
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare - Cornerstone Books
Format: Large print book
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Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn... |
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Onion John
Joseph Krumgold - Crowell
Format: Print book
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The story of a friendship between a 12-year-old boy and an immigrant handyman, almost wrecked by the good intentions of the townspeople. |
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The Trumpeter of Krakow
Eric P. Kelly - Aladdin
Format: Paperback
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For well over thirty years, Eric P. Kellys Newbery Award winner has brought the color and romance of ancient times to young readers. Today, The Trumpeter of Krakow is an absorbing and dramatic as when it was first published in 1928., |
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Hitty Her First Hundred Years
Rachel Field - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. It is indeed a privilege to publish her memoirs, which, besides being full of the most thrilling adventures on land and sea, also reveal her delightful personality. One glance at her portrait will show that she is no ordinary doll. Hitty, or Mehitable... |
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The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Elizabeth Coatsworth - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of a little cat who came to the home of a poor Japanese artist, and, by humility and devotion, brought him good fortune. |
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Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
Cornelia Meigs - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Biography tracing the fascinating life of Louisa May Alcott from her happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston to her success as a writer of such classics as Little women. |
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Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated edition of the Newberry Medal-winning Caddie Woodlawn, which has been captivating young readers since 1935.. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. Shed rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brothers dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with... |
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Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright - Holt
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A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic... |
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Call It Courage
Armstrong Sperry - Macmillan
Format: Print book
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Maftu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. So, though he was the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, a race of Polynesians who worshipped courage, and he was named Stout... |
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Matchlock Gun
Walter D Edmonds - Putnam Group
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The book is set in the year 1756 during the French and Indian War in Guilderland, New York. Ten-year-old Edward Van Alstyne (throughout the book, he is called "Ateoord", which is his name in Dutch) and his mother Gertrude are determined to protect their home and family with an ancient... |
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Johnny Tremain
Esther Hoskins Forbes - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The Year: 1773. The place: Boston. Johnny Tremain is fourteen and apprenticed to a silversmith. He is gifted and lords his skills over the other apprentices, until one day his hand is horribly burned by molten silver. Johnny's dreams of silversmithing are over. A depressed Johnny finds... |
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The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate - Harper
Format: Book
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Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller, this stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated... |
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Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never... |
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The Crossover
Kwame Alexander - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Newbery Medal Winner2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award WinnerNew York Times Bestseller "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year... |
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Last Stop on Market Street
Matt de la Peña - G.P. Putnams Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller Winner of the Newbery Medal A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book This award-winning modern classic - a must-have for every childs home library - is an inclusive ode to kindness, empathy, gratitude, and finding... |
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