Showing 1–5 of 5 titles

• List: John Newbery Medal
• Award year: 1940

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  Boy with a Pack

  By Stephen W. Meader

  Bill fills a backpack with things to sell in Ohio and, with two years of savings, leaves his New Hampshire mill town on foot. The 1837 journey is long and hard but filled with all kinds of adventures, danger, and amazing good luck.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction, Action, Adventure
  • John Newbery Medal 1940 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780152112400
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  By the Shores of Silver Lake

  By Laura Ingalls Wilder

  The Ingalls have not had a good crop since the grasshoppers came. Pa decides they will make one more move, this time to Dakota Territory. The family spends a happy winter taking in other settlers and earning money to send Mary, blind from scarlet fever, to a special school.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1940 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780060264161
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  Daniel Boone

  By James Daugherty

  A rugged frontiersman and a leader of pioneers, Daniel Boone starts life in Pennsylvania and ends it eighty-six years later in Missouri, an almost legendary character. Boone's longing for adventure, his bravery, and his foolishness are examined honestly in this biography that sings the praises of pioneer men and women in words and vigorous drawings.

  • Nonfiction, Biography
  • John Newbery Medal 1940 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780670255894
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  Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz

  By Mabel Robinson

  A brilliant naturalist and the founder of Harvard's Agassiz Museum, Louis Agassiz is realistically portrayed from his childhood in Switzerland through his years as a Harvard professor. Agassiz's fascination with all of nature and his great teaching ability are evident throughout the book.

  • Biography
  • John Newbery Medal 1940 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997489685
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  The Singing Tree

  By Kate Seredy

  Four years after the end of The Good Master, the First World War has started, and Mother, Jancsi, and cousin Kate are left to take care of the farm as Father and Uncle Sandor are called to fight. The three of them hold the farm together and make it a refuge for orphans, relatives, and even prisoners of war.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1940 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780140345438