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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
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The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
Moore, of the Cleveland Museum of Art, encourages readers to try a new way of approaching art: to see art reflecting the world and nature, and the world in turn reflecting art. Paintings (reproduced in color), poems, and quotations are arranged to lead to the discovery of new comparisons between modern, traditional, or ancient art and the imagery of word and picture.- Nonfiction, Arts, Poetry
- John Newbery Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780529040176
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Our Eddie
Eddie's father is a stern, insensitive zealot who refuses, until it is too late, to see that his son is gradually succumbing to a debilitating disease. Set in London and New York in the 1920s, most of this story of a warm Jewish immigrant family is told by Eddie's insightful sister.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780394814551
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Sounder
Sounder, the family dog, valiantly defends the father when the sheriff and his deputies come to arrest him for stealing food for his starving family. Years later, the dog, shot and maimed by the deputies, is the only one to recognize the father when he returns, paralyzed and deformed.- John Newbery Medal 1970 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780060201432