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Gone-Away Lake
All summer Julian and his ten-year-old cousin Portia explore the houses they discover around Gone-Away Lake. They tell no one about the place or the two old people living in one of the houses until a near tragedy exposes their secret.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780152316488
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The Great Wheel
Aunt Honoria predicts that Conn will leave Ireland and head west. Now he is in Chicago working on a construction project for a man named Ferris. His aunt has also made the wild prediction that he will ride the world's biggest wheel. Conn does as soon as Mr. Ferris's daring project is completed for the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780670351022
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The Horsecatcher
Unlike the other Cheyenne boys, Young Elk refuses to kill. He wants to capture and tame the wild horses of the prairie. When his father insists he join in their war, he runs away, returning months later with fifteen horses and the start of what becomes a nearly legendary way with wild horses.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780664300630
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Rifles for Watie
Sixteen-year-old Jeff, already a combat veteran in the Union Army and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, is captured by the rebel troops of General Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian, and forced to become one of his scouts.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1958 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780064470308
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Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle
With hardly any education or money and only Ben Franklin's letter of introduction, Tom Paine goes to America and writes Common Sense, the first of his revolutionary pamphlets. The power and vision of Paine's writings and the violent feelings they aroused throughout his life are evident in this biography.- Nonfiction, History, American History
- John Newbery Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780690828900