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• Audience: Older
• Genre: General Fiction
• Genre: Fiction
• Award year: 1997

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  A Girl Named Disaster

  By Nancy Farmer

  When Nhamo (Disaster) flees her village to search for her father in Zimbabwe, she is lost on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique. Alone, she survives harsh weather, wild animals, and near starvation before building a new life in the world of her father's people.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1997 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: (0-531-09539-8)
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  The View from Saturday

  By E. L. Konigsburg

  Mrs. Olinski selects four of her sixth-grade students to be the Academic Bowl team. No one understands her choice of these particular students, in clud ing Mrs. Olinski, who continues to question herself. The students surprise everyone with their unique contributions to the challenges of competition.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1997 (Medal Winner)
  • Older
  • ISBN: (0-689-80993-X)