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Newbery Medal Winners 1922-1979 

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.
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Newbery Medal Winners 1922-1979

  • The Westing Game (1979)
    Call Number: PZ7.R1817 We 1978
    The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
  • Bridge to Terabithia (1978)
    Call Number: PZ7.P273 Br 1977
    The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1977)
    Call Number: PZ7.T21723 Ro 2001
    A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
  • The Grey King (1976)
    Call Number: PZ7.C7878 Gt 1975
    In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.
  • M. C. Higgins , the Great (1975)
    Call Number: PZ7.H1828 Mac 1999
    As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
  • Slave Dancer (1974)
    Call Number: PZ7.F838 S1 2001
    Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
  • Julie of the Wolves (1973)
    Call Number: PZ7.G2933 Ju 1972
    While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1972)
    Call Number: PZ7.O135 Mr 1986
    Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
  • Summer of the Swans (1971)
    Call Number: PZ7.B98396 Su 1970
    A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.
  • Sounder (1970)
    Call Number: PZ7.A73394 So 1969
    Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
  • High King (1969)
    Call Number: PZ7.A3774 Hi 1999
    n this final part of the chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.
  • From the Mixed Up File of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1968)
    Call Number: PZ7.K8352 Fr 1967
    When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere she wants to run to somewhere--to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and preferably elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
  • Up a Road Slowly (1967)
    Call Number: PZ7.H9156 Up 2003
    After her mother’s death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a school teacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
  • I, Juan de Pareju (1966)
    Call Number: PZ7.T7327 I4 1965
    An excellent novel, written in the form of an autobiography, about the painter Velzquez and his Negro slave and assistant, Juan de Pareja, who was legally prohibited from painting because he was a slave.
  • Shadow the a Bull (1965)
    Call Number: PZ7.W8182 Sh 1985
    Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father’s shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
  • It's Like This, Cat (1964)
    Call Number: PZ7.N462 It 1991
    Dave Mitchell and his father yell at each other a lot, and whenever the fighting starts, Dave's mother gets an asthma attack. That's when Dave storms out of the house. Then Dave meets Tom, a strange boy who helps him rescue Cat. It isn't long before Cat introduces Dave to Mary, a wonderful girl from Coney Island. Slowly Dave comes to see the complexities in people's lives and to understand himself and his family a little better.
  • A Wrinkle in Time (1963)
    Call Number: PZ7.L5385 Wr 1962
    Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg’s father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
  • The Bronze Bow (1962)
    Call Number: PZ7.S7376 Br 1989
    When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin’s father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins (1961)
    Call Number: Z7.O237 Is 1960
    This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away.
  • Onion John (1960)
    Call Number: PZ7.K946 On 1959
    His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1959)
    Call Number: PZ7.S7376 Wi 2001
    In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
  • Rifles of Watie (1958)
    Call Number: PZ7.K255 Ri 1957
    The story of Jeff Bussey, a farm boy living in 1861, who joins the Union army and goes on an important mission to discover how Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee Rebels are receiving repeating rifles from northern manufacturers.
  • Miracles on Maple Hill (1957)
    Call Number: PZ7.S72 Mi 1956
    This is a loving family saga about Marley, brother Joe, their parents, and their friends. When Marley's father returns home from World War II a broken man physically and spiritually, her mother decides that the family needs to leave the city for an extended visit to Grandma's house in the country
  • Carry On, Mr Bowditch (1956)
    Call Number: PZ7.L348 Car 1955
    A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship’s captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
  • The Wheel on the School (1955)
    Call Number: PZ7.D3675 Wg 1954
    Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina, one of the six schoolchildren who first asked the question, and she set the others to wondering. And sometimes when you begin to wonder, you begin to make things happen. So the children set out to bring the storks back to Shora. The force of their vision put the whole village to work until at last the dream began to come true.
  • And Now Miguel (1954)
    Call Number: PZ7.K947 An 1953
    A memorable and deeply moving story of a family of New Mexican sheepherders, in which Miguel, neither child nor man, tells of his great longing to accompany men and sheep to summer pasture, and expresses his need to be recognized as a maturing individual.
  • Secret of the Andes (1953)
    Call Number: PZ7.C5296 Se 1952
    An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
  • Ginger Pye (1952)
    Call Number: PZ7.E749 Gi 2000
    The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
  • Amos Fortune, Free Man (1951)
    Call Number: PZ7.Y28 Am 1989
    The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
  • Door in the Wall (1950)
    Call Number: PZ7.D35 Do 1989
    A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
  • King of the Wind (1949)
    Call Number: PZ10.3.H43 Ki 2001
    Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham’s majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior Thoroughbred horses.
  • The Twenty-One Balloons (1948)
    Call Number: PZ7.D8527 Tw 1947
    Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.
  • Miss Hickory (1947)
    Call Number: PZ8.1.B16 Mi 1974
    With an apple twig for a body and a hickory nut for a head, Miss Hickory stubbornly refuses help as she tries to survive a cold New Hampshire winter alone.
  • Strawberry Girl (1946)
    Call Number: PZ7.L54 St 1973
    Birdie Boyer was from Florida and she belonged to a large "strawberry family," who lived on a flatwoods farm in the lake section of the state. Through all the hazards of the uncertain crop -- battling against dry weather and grass fires, the roving hogs and cattle of their neighbors -- Birdie dreamed of an education that would include playing the organ.
  • Rabbit Hill (1945)
    Call Number: PZ10.3 .L39 Rab 1972
    New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
  • Johnny Tremain (1944)
    Call Number: PZ7.F749 Jo 1998
    After injuring his hand, a silversmith’s apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
  • Adam of the Road (1943)
    Call Number: PZ7.V746 Ad 1942
    Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout thirteenthcentury England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when Nick is stolen and his father disappears, Adam suddenly finds himself alone. He searches the same roads he traveled with his father, meeting various people along the way. But will Adam ever find his father and dog and end his desperate search?
  • Matchlock Gun (1942)
    Call Number: PZ7.E247 Mat 1989
    In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
  • Call It Courage (1941)
    Call Number: PZ8.1.S75 C34 1968
    Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.
  • Daniel Boone (1940)
    Call Number: Out of Print and Unavailable
  • Thimble Summer (1939)
    Call Number: PZ7.E724 Th 1966
    A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways.
  • The White Stag (1938)
    Call Number: PZ8.1.S457 Wh 1965
    Retells the legendary story of the Huns and Magyars’ long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home.
  • Roller Skates (1937)
    Call Number: PZ7.S269 Ro 1995
    Liberated for a year from her parents’ restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.
  • Caddie Woodlawn (1936)
    Call Number: PZ7.B78 Cad 1973
    Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
  • Dorby (1935)
    Call Number: Out of Print and Unavailable
  • Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women (1934)
    Call Number: PS1018 .M44 1990
    Profiles the life of the noted nineteenth-century writer, detailing her early, happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston, and her later success as author of the classic "Little Women."
  • Young Fu of the Uppper Yangtze (1933)
    Call Number: PZ7.L5849 Yo 1973
    In the 1920’s a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
  • Waterless Mountain (1932)
    Call Number: Of of Print and Unavailable
    A poignant story of a young Navajo boy's spiritual odyssey and coming of age as a medicine man provides a vivid portrait of the beliefs, traditions, and lifestyle of the Navajo people.
  • The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1931)
    Call Number: PZ10.3.C629 Cat 1958
    This is the story of a little cat who came to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brought him good fortune.
  • Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1930)
    Call Number: PZ7.W46843 Rac 1999
    A doll named Hitty recounts her adventures as she moves through a continually changing string of owners.
  • The Trumpeter of Krakow (1929)
    Call Number: PZ7.K294 T7 1966
    A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy’s memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
  • Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon (1928)
    Call Number: PZ7.M954 G2 1954
    The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird’s courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
  • Smoky, the Cowhorse (1927)
    Call Number: PZ10.3. J275 Sm 2000
    The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.
  • Shen of the Sea (1926)
    Call Number: PZ7.C45 Sh 1953
    A series of fascinating Chinese stories, strong in humor and rich in Chinese wisdom, in which the author has caught admirably the spirit of Chinese life and thought.
  • Tales from Silver Lands (1925)
    Call Number: Out of Print and Unavailable
    This children's book is a collection of nineteen folk tales collected and retold by the author from his travels throughout Central and South America.
  • The Dark Frigate ( 1924)
    Call Number: PZ7.H312 Dar 1996
    In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
  • The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle (1923)
    Call Number: PZ7.L826115 Vo 1998
    When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.
  • The Story of Mankind (1922) (First Newbery Medal Winner)
    Call Number: PZ4.5 His .V3 Sto 2000
    Winner of the first John Newbery Medal in 1922, here is van Loon’s renowned classic record of historic adventure, updated for the 21st century.
 
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