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(2018 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Jason Reynolds
Call number: YA REY
ISBN: 9781481438261
Summary: "As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know." - From Follet
(2018 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Lauren Wolk
Call number: F WOL
ISBN: 9781101994849
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--Provided by publisher." - From Follet
(2016 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Call number: Elementary ELA Returning Textbook
ISBN: 9780147510488
Summary: "A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother." - From Follet
(2015 Newbery Medal - Winner)
Author: Kwame Alexander
Call number: F ALE
ISBN: 9780544935204
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health." - From Follet
(2015 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Call number: F WOO
ISBN: 9780147515827
Summary: "Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement." - From Follet
(2011 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Cece Bell
Call number: F BEL
ISBN: 9781419712173
Summary: "Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very awkward--hearing aid. The Phonic Ear helps Cece a lot but it also got her some troubles. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become "El Deafo" " - From Follet
(2012 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Thanhha Lai
Call number: F Lai
ISBN: 9780061962790
Summary: "Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama." - From Follet
(2011 Newbery Medal - Winner)
Author: Clare Vanderpool
Call number: F BEL
ISBN: 9780375858291
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past." - From Follet
(2011 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Joyce Sidman
Call number: NFK - 811.54 SID
ISBN: 9780547152288
Summary: "A collection of poems that celebrate the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark." - From Follet
(2011 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Call number: F WIL
ISBN: 9780060760908
Summary: "In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive at a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp." - From Follet
(2011 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Jennifer Holm
Call number: F. Hol
ISBN: 9780375836909
Summary: "In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida." - From Follet
(2010 Newbery Medal - Winner)
Author: Rebecca Stead
Call number: F STE
ISBN: 9780375850868
Summary: "As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid", a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space." - From Follet
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
(2010 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Phillip Hoose
Call number: NF - 323.09
ISBN: 9780374313227
Summary: "Includes bibliographical references and index. Product Description: Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. In her own words, Claudette gives a detailed look at segregated life in 1950s Memphis and the start of the civil rights movement. "
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
(2010 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Jacqueline Kelly
Call number: F KEL
ISBN: 9780312659301
Summary: "In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate learns about love from the older three of her six brothers and studies the natural world with her grandfather which leads to an important discovery." - From Follet
The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg
(2010 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Rodman Philbrick
Call number: F Phi
ISBN: 9780545235099
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War." - From Trove
Where the mountain meets the moon
(2010 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Grace Lin
Call number: F Lin
ISBN: 9780316038638
Summary: "Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River." - From Follet
(2008 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Call number: F WOO
ISBN: 9780399246548
Summary: In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
(2005 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Call number: F SCH
ISBN: 0553494953
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Summary: In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
(2002 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Nancy Farmer
Call number: YA. Far
ISBN: 9780689852237
Summary: In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the one hundred forty-two-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Hoot
(2003 Newbery Medal - Winner)
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Call number: F Hia
ISBN: 9780375829161
Summary: Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?
Welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder!
Out of the Dust
(1998 Newbery Medal - Winner)
Author: Karen Hesse
Call number: F Hes
ISBN: 9780590360807
Summary: "A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.
(1993 Newbery Medal - Honor)
Author: Laurence Yep
Call number: F Yep
ISBN: 9780064404891
Summary: When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.
The Whipping Boy
(1987 Newbery Medal - Honnor)
Author: Sid Fleischman
Call number: F Fle
ISBN: 9780688062163
Summary: This briskly told tale of high adventure, taut with suspense and rich with colorful characters, was named an ALA Notable Book. Sid Fleischman's celebrated novel features brief, action-packed chapters and includes black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sís. "An 18th century tale about the escapades of a resourceful orphan and a spoiled young prince. . . . Full of adventure, suspense, humor, and lively characters."