Showing 1–7 of 7 titles

• Format: Book
• Award year: 1932

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  Boy of the South Seas

  By Eunice Tietjens

  When a ship arrives in the harbor of the Marquesas Islands, young Teiki's curiosity gets ahold of him, and he climbs aboard and falls asleep. He awakens when the vessel is under sail and there is no turning back. At the island of Moorea, he swims ashore and makes a new life for himself.

  • Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1932 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997489098
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  Calico Bush

  By Rachel Field

  In 1743, twelve-year-old Marguerite is bound out to a family in Maine. Discriminated against by the parents because she is French, she finds happiness with the children as they all face hardships and the rigors of life in the Maine wilderness.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1932 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780027346206
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  The Fairy Circus

  By Dorothy P Lathrop

  When the circus tent goes up, it is so big that it encloses the places where the fairies live. They all scramble for the best view, and when it is over they decide to have a circus of their own. The fairies and woodland animals use grand imaginations as they re-create the circus in their own way.

  • Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1932 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997489074
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  Jane's Island

  By Marjorie Allee

  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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  Out of the Flame

  By Eloise Lownsbery

  In the sixteenth century, Pierre is first a page then a squire as he becomes trained to be a knight in the court of Francis I. He attends tournaments, visits with great intellectuals, and learns music and botany with the royal children. Before the story ends, he and the children are abducted and released by pirates.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1932 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997489111
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  Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy

  By Mary Gould Davis

  Seven widely varied Italian stories tell of such things as Saint Francis taming a menacing wolf, of an obstinate and heroic donkey, and of how a street in Florence was named. The tales, all told with a bit of Italian folk humor, come from many sources, including a Tuscan peasant woman and The Decameron.

  • Fiction, Folklore & Fairy Tales, Short Stories
  • John Newbery Medal 1932 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997489142
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  Waterless Mountain

  By Laura Adams Armer

  Destined to become a medicine man, introspective Younger Brother learns the songs and stories of the Navajo Indians and begins to create songs of his own. Skillfully in ter woven into the story are the early twentieth-century culture and heritage of the tribe.

  • Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1932 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780679845027