Showing 151–200 of 425 titles
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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 Good Master
Jancsi is fascinated by his city cousin Kate's daring and reckless behavior. Whether she is stopping a stampede of horses, nearly drowning in the river, or running off with gypsies, she is a marvel and a delight to the Hungarian country folk.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1936 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780670345922
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Thirteenth-century England springs to life in twenty-one dramatic individual narratives that introduce young inhabitants of village and manor, from Hugo, the lord's nephew, to Nelly, the sniggler. Schlitz's elegant monologues and dialogues draw back the curtain on the period, revealing character and relationships and hinting at stories untold.- Nonfiction, Literature
- John Newbery Medal 2008 (Medal Winner)
- Older
- ISBN: 9780763615789
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Graven Images
Three gripping stories, two sinister and one funny and all with historical settings, are centered on graven images: a wooden boy with a frightening secret, a weathervane that leads to true love, and a statue ordered by a ghost.- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Stories
- John Newbery Medal 1983 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780060219062
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The Graveyard Book
A delicious mix of murder, fantasy, humor, and human longing, the tale of No body Owens is told in magical, haunting prose. A child marked for death by an ancient league of assassins escapes into an abandoned graveyard, where he is reared and protected by its spirit denizens.- Fiction, Fantasy
- John Newbery Medal 2009 (Medal Winner)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780060530921
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The Great Fire
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 Great Gilly Hopkins
Abandoned as a preschooler, Gilly has gone through a succession of foster homes. Smart, self-sufficient, and superficially hard, Gilly manages to do just what she wants until she is sent to stay with Maime Trotter, a woman with a big heart, patience, and wisdom enough to know how to reach the unhappy girl.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1979 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780690038378
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The Great Quest
Twelve-year-old Josiah tells of how his Uncle Seth is tricked by an old friend into selling his shop and buying a ship. Thinking they are going in search of gold, Josiah and his uncle find themselves unwillingly involved in the slave trade and at odds with the crew.- Fiction, Action, Adventure
- John Newbery Medal 1922 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9789997488640
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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 Grey King
In Wales recovering from a serious illness, eleven-year-old Will, the youngest of the Old Ones, uses his considerable powers to find the golden harp that will awaken the Sleepers. It is not an easy quest, and Will has only the mysterious Bran and Bran's dog, Cafall, to help him fight the forces of dark and evil.- Fiction, Fantasy
- John Newbery Medal 1976 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780689829840
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Hatchet
When the pilot dies of a heart attack, Brian crash-lands the small plane in the Canadian wilderness. Left with only a hatchet and the clothes he is wearing, Brian begins a gripping fifty-four-day ordeal that challenges his physical and psychological skills to their limits.- Fiction, Action, Adventure
- John Newbery Medal 1988 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780689840920
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Hattie Big Sky
Sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks is looking for a place to belong—a home. In 1918 she leaves Iowa for the Montana prairie. In this engaging first-person narrative, Hattie strives to forge a new life. Vivid imagery and careful attention to historical detail distinguish this memorable novel that portrays her struggle to “prove her claim.”- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2007 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-385-73313-5
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Have You Seen Tom Thumb?
From the age of five, Charles Sherwood Stratton, only twenty-five inches tall and weighing fifteen pounds, is presented to the world by P. T. Barnum as General Tom Thumb. A charming, humorous person, he travels all over the world with Barnum.- Nonfiction, Biography
- John Newbery Medal 1943 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9789998894297
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The Headless Cupid
Eleven-year-old David is pleased about his father's remarriage until he meets his new stepsister, Amanda, a self-proclaimed witch. Angry at her mother for remarrying, Amanda sets up situations that lead the other children to believe their house is haunted. Then unexplained events turn the tables, frightening even Amanda.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1972 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780689704147
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Heart of a Samurai
Shipwrecks, whaling, a search for home and a delightful exploration of cultures create a swashbuckling adventure. This historical novel is based on the true story of Manjiro (later John Mung), the young fisherman believed to be the first Japanese person to visit America, who against all odds, becomes a samurai.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2011 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 9780810989818
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The Heavenly Tenants
The night before the Maxwells are to leave for three weeks in Virginia, father takes the children outside and shows them the different constellations that make up the zodiac. When no one comes to care for their animals while they are gone, the signs of the zodiac come to Earth and do it for them.- Fiction, Fantasy
- John Newbery Medal 1947 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780930407254
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Hello the Boat!
The entire Doak family pitches in to get their store-boat from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati in 1817. Along the Ohio River, settlers shout out, “Hello the boat!” and the family eagerly pushes the boat ashore and enthusiastically opens the store. On their way, the Doaks encounter thieves, learn about the history of the river area, and have a surprisingly good time.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1939 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780030350351
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Hello, Universe
In this story told from various viewpoints, including a bully, a deaf girl, a fortune-teller, and more, a rescue is performed, revealing bravery in the midst of fear.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2018 (Medal Winner), Notable Children's Books 2018
- Older
- ISBN: 9780062414151
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The Hero and the Crown
The daughter of the king of Damar and his second wife (a witch woman from the north), Aerin does not fit in at court. Unable to succeed her father to the throne, she must instead find her own destiny. Wielding her blue sword, she not only defeats dragons but finally becomes the hero of the kingdom.- Fiction, Fantasy
- John Newbery Medal 1985 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780688025939
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The Hidden Treasure of Glaston
When he is forced to leave the country because of his part in the murder of Thomas à Becket, Sir Hugh de Morville leaves his crippled son in the care of the monks at Glaston. As the boy and a new friend explore the area, they discover treasure left by King Arthur and his court and begin an exciting and suspenseful search for the Holy Grail.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1947 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780670370825
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The High King
In the final book of the chronicles of Prydain, Taran leads his forces against Arawn and his army of the dead. Victorious, but with great loss of life and destruction to Prydain, Taran becomes High King, fulfilling the predictions of his wizard guardian, Dallben.- Fiction, Fantasy
- John Newbery Medal 1969 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780440935742
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The Higher Power of Lucky
Patron takes readers to the California desert community of Hard Pan (population 43), where ten-year-old Lucky Trimble eavesdrops on twelve-step program meetings from her hiding place behind Hard Pan's Found Object Wind Chime Museum & Visitor Center. Eccentric characters and quirky details spice up Lucky's life just as fresh parsley embellishes her guardian Brigitte's French cuisine.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2007 (Medal Winner)
- Middle
- ISBN: 1-4169-0194-9
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Readers will be riveted by the chilling history meticulously documented in Bartoletti's book. By weaving the personal stories of 12 young Germans into the larger fabric of Nazism and World War II, Bartoletti elevates understanding of Hitler's strategic plans of manipulation to a new level and offers contemporary youth the opportunity to question the choices they might have made in the same situation. -
Hitty. Her First Hundred Years
Carved from a block of mountain ash a hundred years before, the six-and-a-halfinch doll now sits secure in the antique shop window and writes her memoirs. She recounts the adventures she had with many different people in places around the world. Illustrations show Hitty in many styles of clothing in her life thus far.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1930 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780027348408
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Holes
Stanley Yelnats, the heir to his family's curse of bad luck, is convicted of a crime he didn't commit. He serves his sentence at Camp Green Lake, a dry, flat wasteland where the warden assigns each inmate the task of digging one hole every day. Hole by hole, Stanley and his friend Zero dig their destiny.- Fiction, Mystery
- John Newbery Medal 1999 (Medal Winner)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-374-33265-7
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Homesick: My Own Story
Fritz remembers with humor and poignancy two years of her childhood in China during the turbulent 1920s. She contends with being a “foreign devil,” losing a longed-for baby sister, and, most of all, longing for the United States, a country she has never seen.- Nonfiction, Autobiography
- John Newbery Medal 1983 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780399209338
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Honk, the Moose
The temperature is thirty below zero and the snow is seven feet deep when the boys find a moose in Ivar's father's stable. The town is in an uproar as everyone tries to think of ways to get the gentle and very funny beast to leave.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1936 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780396073581
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Hoot
Hiaasen's wildly funny satire features the new kid, Roy, joining forces with tough Beatrice and the elusive Mullet Fingers to defeat a bully, thwart an avaricious corporation, and save a colony of burrowing owls. Hiaasen's work is both a rollicking adventure and a serious examination of values that threaten our environment.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2003 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-375-82181-3
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Hope Was Here
Hope Was Here relates how sixteen-year-old Hope and her aunt move to a small town in Wisconsin to join the “short order dance” of life at the Welcome Stairways Diner. In the course of just a few months, Hope encounters issues as diverse as her customers: corruption in politics, a new love, serious illness, and the meaning of family.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-399-23142-0
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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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The House of Sixty Fathers
Alone in his family sampan, Tien Pao lands in Japanese-occupied China and begins a dangerous journey back to Hengyang during World War II. On his way, a company of American airmen adopt him, and he finds himself with sixty strange but kind fathers who help him find his family.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1957 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780060214814
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The House of the Scorpion
Farmer tackles the provocative topics of cloning, the value of life, illegal immigration, and the drug trade in a coming-of-age novel set in a desolate, futuristic desert- Fiction, Science Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2003 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-689-85222-3
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The Hundred Dresses
Wanda Petronski, who speaks in broken English and always wears the same sparkling clean dress to school each day, brags to the other girls that she has a hundred dresses at home. Wanda is laughed at and teased by the other girls, and she and her family move away. Only then do the girls find Wanda's beautifully drawn pictures of one hundred dresses.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1945 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780152373740
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The Hundred Penny Box
For each of her hundred years there is a penny in Aunt Dew's box and a story to go along with it. More than his parents, Michael understands the importance of the box to the old woman and loves to hear her tell the stories again and again.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1976 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780670387878
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Hurry Home, Candy
Taken from his mother before he is weaned and given to a family that only knows how to hurt and control him, Candy is lost on a family outing and becomes a stray. He longs for his own home and for people who will really love him.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1954 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780060214869
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I, Juan de Pareja
Behind the great painter Velasquez stands his faithful slave, Juan, ready to prepare a canvas, mix paint, and boost his morale. But, secretly, Juan teaches himself to paint, winning his freedom and the respect of a great master.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1966 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780395775318
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In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
Stories from African, Chinese, Native American, and Guinean peoples are represented among the twenty-five creation myths found in this collection. Faithfully retold, the stories are followed by notes about their sources. Dramatic watercolor paintings accent each tale.- Nonfiction, Religion
- John Newbery Medal 1989 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780606005197
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Incident at Hawk's Hill
Lonely, small, and frail, six-year-old Ben shies away from people but shows deep interest in and affinity toward animals. Lost during a storm, he takes refuge with a badger who has just lost her young. The badger adopts him, and he lives a feral life for three months until he is found. Convincingly written, the incident is based on an actual occurrence in 1870.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1972 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780316208666
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Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
Even though other settlers have been slaughtered by the French and the Indians, Pa refuses to let his family go east to safety. They, too, are captured, and only young, blond-haired Mary survives, forced to become a part of the Seneca people.
- Fiction, Biography, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1942 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780397300723
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The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
On a dark night in 1242 France, travelers tell the story of three mysterious children: William, Jacob, and Jeanne, and their dog Gwenforte, recently brought back from the dead.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2017 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2017
- Older
- ISBN: 9780525426165
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Inside Out & Back Again
Hà and her family flee war-torn Vietnam for the American South. In spare yet vivid verse, she chronicles her year-long struggle to find her place in a new and shifting world.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2012 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780061962783
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Accidentally left behind when her tribe flees, Karana spends eighteen years alone on an island off the coast of California. Her courage and resourcefulness help her to survive and to fill her life with moments of beauty and happiness.- Fiction, Action, Adventure
- John Newbery Medal 1961 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780395069622
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It's Like This, Cat
When his father suggests that owning a dog might be good for him, fourteen-yearold Dave defiantly goes to Aunt Kate the Cat Woman and adopts a stray. The cat ends up leading him to new people and adventures all over Manhattan—and even to an appreciation for his parents.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1964 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780060243906
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Jacob Have I Loved
Although she takes pride in her twin sister's singing talent, Wheeze (Louise) is jealous of the attention Caroline gets on their Chesapeake Bay island. It is only when she leaves and starts a life as a midwife in Kentucky that Wheeze comes to understand that she has always been loved and accepted for herself.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1981 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780064403689
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Jane's Island
Ellen, a college freshman, spends the summer with twelve-year-old Jane in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where Jane's father is a marine biologist. The girls enjoy light summer adventures while fishing and picnicking. Jane is a competent naturalist who imparts a good measure of scientific information throughout the story.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1932 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780961137427
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The Jazz Man
Night after night Zeke and his mother and father listen to the jazz man play his piano. Then his mother tires of his father not working, and she leaves them. Soon his father goes as well, and Zeke is alone. As the gloomy days and nights pass, Zeke dreams of the jazz man and of better, happier times.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1967 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780689717673
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Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
Elizabeth is lonely at her new school until she meets Jennifer, a girl her age who claims to be a real witch. In awe of Jennifer, Elizabeth agrees to become her apprentice and initially finds her boring life full of adventure. But Jennifer is very demanding, and even superficially docile Elizabeth can only be pushed so far.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1968 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780689702969
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Joey Pigza Loses Control
Spending the summer with his estranged father, Joey longs for the two of them to be winners together, but their lives gradually spiral out of control. As the old “wired” Joey returns, readers will long to see him regain his balance in an out-of-kilter world. Like many family stories, this is a tale whose pain is generously laced with humor.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 0-374-39989-1
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Johnny Tremain
Fourteen-year-old apprentice silversmith Johnny Tremain has a terrible accident that forces him to give up his work. He becomes involved with Sam Adams and the other Boston patriots, takes part in the Boston Tea Party, and plays a role in the battle of Lexington.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1944 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780395067666
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Journey Outside
In a story filled with allegory and symbolism, Dilar's people endlessly travel an underground river, headed for the “better place.” But Dilar, suspecting that they are merely going around in circles, jumps from his raft and accidentally makes his way into the outside world. There, nearly blinded by the light, he tries to learn more about his people and to find a way to bring them aboveground.- Fiction, Science Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780670409532