Showing 1–5 of 5 titles

• Audience: Older
• Award year: 1996

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  Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. And Stephan K.

  By Lutz Van Dijk, Elizabeth D. Crawford (Translator)

  A sixteen-year-old Polish boy falls in love with a Nazi airman during the German occupation.

  • Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1996 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780805037708
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  The Great Fire

  By Jim Murphy

  The riveting narrative of the 1871 Chicago fire thrusts the reader into the center of the raging conflagration. Murphy weaves eyewitness accounts of the disaster with factual and social commentary, period photographs, etchings, and maps into memorable nonfiction writing.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • John Newbery Medal 1996 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 0-590-47267-4
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  The Lady with the Hat

  By Uri Orlev, Hillel Halkin (Translator)

  World War II survivors search for a homeland, for relatives, and for their lives.

  • Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1996 (Medal Winner)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780395699577
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  What Jamie Saw

  By Carolyn Coman

  What Jamie Saw is a gripping interior novel that portrays a desperate mother and her quietly heroic son as they move from an impossibly bleak situation toward a promise of hope. Coman captures Jamie's fear, his uncertainty, and his confusion as well as his growing confidence and ability to stand up for himself.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1996 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: (1-886910-02-2)
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  Yolonda's Genius

  By Carol Fenner

  Fenner portrays memorable characters and a vivid, authentic place in this engaging story of a bright, feisty fifth grader. Yolonda is determined to bring to light her younger brother's extraordinary talent of transforming the world around him into the music he makes.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1996 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: (0-689-80001-0)