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• List: John Newbery Medal
• Award year: 1989

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  In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

  By Virgina Hamilton, Barry Moser (Illustrator)

  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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  Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

  By Paul Fleischman

  Fourteen poems, using two voices, sometimes alternating, sometimes together, offer listeners a look at what insects just might think of themselves and their world. The book lice, grasshoppers, house crickets, and their poetic companions are illustrated in soft yet often comical black-and-white pencil drawings.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • John Newbery Medal 1989 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780060218522
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  Scorpions

  By Walter Dean Myers

  Hoping to find a way to raise money for an appeal for his imprisoned older brother, twelve-year-old Jamal agrees to try to become the leader of his brother's Harlem gang, the Scorpions. Involvement with the gang (and the gun he is given) leads to tragedy for Jamal and his friend Tito.

  • Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1989 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780060243647