Showing 1–7 of 7 titles

• Award year: 1930

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  A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland

  By Jeanette L :Eaton

  Madame Roland's life coincides with the French Revolution. The historical biography describes the childhood, married life, and tragic execution by guillotine of this remarkable woman. Madame Roland is intelligent and strongly supports the revolution, and her salon is depicted as the headquarters of much political activity.

  • Nonfiction, History, Biography
  • John Newbery Medal 1930 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997488893
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  Hitty. Her First Hundred Years

  By Rachel Field, Dorothy Lathrop (Illustrator)

  Carved from a block of mountain ash a hundred years before, the six-and-a-halfinch doll now sits secure in the antique shop window and writes her memoirs. She recounts the adventures she had with many different people in places around the world. Illustrations show Hitty in many styles of clothing in her life thus far.

  • Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1930 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780027348408
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  Jumping-Off Place

  By Marion Hurd McNeely

  When the uncle who cared for them dies, four children pull up stakes in Wis consin and move to South Dakota. There they weather adventures, hardships, and squatters for the fourteen months it takes to make homesteaders owners of the land.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1930 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997488930
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  Little Blacknose

  By Hildegarde Swift

  Little Blacknose is none other than the DeWitt Clinton Engine, the first locomotive built for the New York Central Railway. The personified engine tells of his life until he becomes enthroned in New York's Grand Central Terminal.

  • Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1930 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997488978
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  Pran of Albania

  By Elizabeth Miller

  In post–World War I Albania amidst a threat of attack from Slavs, fourteen-year-old Pran falls in love. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage, she vows to never marry. After a truce is made, Pran realizes the man she loves is the same man her parents had arranged for her to marry.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction, Action, Adventure
  • John Newbery Medal 1930 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997488916
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  The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales

  By Ella Young

  The Fionn Saga, the stories of Finn McCool known in every Gaelic-speaking part of Scotland and all over Ireland, is retold with vigor. The stories begin when McCool is a small boy learning about his heritage and his crafts and end three hundred years later when his son returns from the country of the Ever-Young.

  • Fiction, Folklore & Fairy Tales
  • John Newbery Medal 1930 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780679202059
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  Vaino

  By Julia Davis Adams

  Ancient legends of Finland, the lives of three children, and the Finnish Revolution of 1917 are blended together to tell a story filled with strong patriotic spirit. Vaino and his older brother and sister become a part of the revolution that finally frees Finland of foreign domination.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1930 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789997488954