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  • Author: Elizabeth Janet Gray
  • List: John Newbery Medal
  • Award year: 1939
  • Penn

    Until he converts to the Quaker religion, William Penn leads a privileged upper-class life. Then he loses everything and is imprisoned. After fighting hard for religious freedom, Penn is allowed to go to America and found the new colony of Pennsylvania, based on the principles for which he fought.