Showing 1–3 of 3 titles

• Audience: Middle
• Audience: Older
• List: John Newbery Medal
• Genre: Fiction

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  Ella Enchanted

  By Gail Carson Levine

  Spunky, stubborn, and very clever, this new Cinderella spends a lifetime trying to outwit the curse of a fairy's unwelcome gift of obedience. In a kingdom populated with ogres, giants, princes, and fairies, Ella begins a fruitless quest to have the curse lifted, only to discover that she has that power within herself.

  • Fiction, Fantasy
  • John Newbery Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
  • Middle, Older
  • ISBN: (0-06-027510-3)
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  Lily's Crossing

  By Patricia Reilly Giff

  During her 1944 summer vacation in the Rockaways, ten-year-old Lily's best friend moves away and her beloved father Poppy goes off to war. Then Lily meets Albert, a young Hungarian refugee with whom she builds a poignant friendship based on shared loneliness, secrets, and lies.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
  • Middle, Older
  • ISBN: (0-385-32142-2)
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  Wringer

  By Jeryy Spinelli

  Palmer LaRue dreads his approaching birthday because he does not want to be a wringer, one of the ten-year-old boys who breaks the necks of pigeons wounded at the town's pigeon shoot fund-raiser. When his three bullying friends suspect he is sheltering a stray pigeon, Palmer decides to take a personal stand against this annual rite of passage.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
  • Middle, Older
  • ISBN: (0-06-024913-7)