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• List: John Newbery Medal
• Award year: 1979

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  The Great Gilly Hopkins

  By Katherine Paterson

  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 Westing Game

  By Ellen Raskin

  An expensive apartment building mysteriously fills up with sixteen occupants—all named as heirs or possible murderers in millionaire Sam Westing's will. The sixteen are paired, given $10,000, and challenged to discover who really killed Sam Westing.

  • Fiction, Mystery
  • John Newbery Medal 1979 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780451480989