Newbery Winners
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery.
The Lawrence W. Tyree Library has the following winners available to borrow. Unless otherwise noted, books are found in the Youth Collection on the second floor.
Award Winners
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2025 -- The First State of Being
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.1.K45 Fi 2024When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever. -
2024 -- The Eyes and the Impossible
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.1.E296 Ey 2023Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world. -
2023 -- Freewater
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.1.L865 Fr 2022Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. -
2022 -- The Last Cuentista
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.1.H5468 Las 2021Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children—among them Petra and her family—have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet—and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. -
2021 -- When You Trap a Tiger
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.1.K418 Whe 2020When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal--return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni's health--Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice...and the courage to face a tiger. -
2020 -- New Kid
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.7.C734 N4 2019Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?
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2019 -- Merci Suárez Changes Gears
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.M43 Suá 2018Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci's school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna's jealousy. -
2018 -- Hello Universe
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.1.K45 Hel 2017Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him. -
2017 -- The Girl Who Drank the Moon
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.B26663 Gi 2016An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. -
2016 -- Last Stop on Market Street
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Call Number: PICTURE COMMUNITY / DE LA PENA, M. / LAST STOP ONA young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things. -
2015 -- The Crossover
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.5.A44 Cr 2014Fourteen-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. -
2014 -- Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.D5455 Fl 2013Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. -
2013 -- The One and Only Ivan
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.A6483 On 2012When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. -
2012 -- Dead End in Norvelt
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.G15334 Dd 2011In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses. -
2011 -- Moon over Manifest
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.P28393 Mo 2010Twelve-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. -
2010 -- When You Reach Me
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.S80857 Wh 2009As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s 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.
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2009 -- The Graveyard Book
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.G1273 Gr 2008After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. -
2008 -- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
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Call Number: JUV PS3619.C43 C55 2007A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor. -
2007 -- The Higher Power of Lucky
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.P27565 Hig 2006Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life. -
2006 -- Criss Cross
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.P4313 Cr 2005Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. -
2005 -- Kira-Kira
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.K1166 Ki 2004Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. -
2004 -- The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ8.D525 Tal 2003The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. -
2003 -- Crispin: The Cross of Lead
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.A953 Cr 2002Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. -
2002 -- A Single Shard
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.P22115 Si 2001Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. -
2001 -- A Year Down Yonder
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.P338 Yh 2000During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. -
2000 -- Bud, Not Buddy
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.C94137 Bu 1999Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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1999 -- Holes
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.S1185 Ho 1998As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. -
1998 -- Out of the Dust
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.H4364 Ou 1997In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. -
1997 -- The View from Saturday
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.K8352 Vi 1996Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. -
1996 -- The Midwife's Apprentice
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.C962 Mi 1995In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. -
1995 -- Walk Two Moons
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.C8615 Wal 1994After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. -
1994 -- The Giver
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.L9673 Gi 2012Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -
1993 -- Missing May
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.R982 Mj 1992After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. -
1992 -- Shiloh
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.N24 Sg 1991When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. -
1991 -- Maniac Magee
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.S75663 Man 1990After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. -
1990 -- Number the Stars
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.L9673 Nu 1998In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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1989 -- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
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Call Number: JUV PS3556.L42268 J69 1988A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects. -
1988 -- Lincoln: A Photobiography
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Call Number: E457.905.F73 1987 (3rd floor)Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. -
1987 -- The Whipping Boy
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.F5992 Wh 1987A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. -
1986 -- Sarah, Plain and Tall
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.M2225 Sar 1985When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by her and hope that she will stay. -
1985 -- The Hero and the Crown
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.M1988 He 1984Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. -
1984 -- Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.C5792 De 1983In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. -
1983 -- Dicey's Song
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.V874 Di 1982Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage. -
1982 -- A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
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Call Number: JUV PS3573.I444 V5 1981A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. -
Jacob Have I Loved
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.P273 Jac 1980Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. -
1980 -- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7 .B6237 GatThe journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
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1979 -- The Westing Game
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.R1817 We 1978The 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. -
1978 -- Bridge to Terabithia
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.P273 Br 1977The 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. -
1977 -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.T21723 RoA black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand. -
1976 -- The Grey King
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.C7878 GtA strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark. -
1975 -- M. C. Higgins, the Great
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.H1828 MacAs 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. -
1974 -- The Slave Dancer
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ 7 .F838 SlKidnapped 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. -
1973 -- Julie of the Wolves
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.G2933 JuWhile 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. -
1972 -- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ10.3.O19 MiHaving no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise. -
1971 -- The Summer of the Swans
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.B98396 SuA teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her developmentally disabled brother gets lost. -
1970 -- Sounder
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.A73394 SoAngry 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.
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1969 -- The High King
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.A3774 HiIn this fifth and final chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in ultimate confrontation. -
1968 -- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.K8352 F76 20XXHaving run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. -
1967 -- Up a Road Slowly
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.H9156 Up 1993After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen. -
1966 -- I, Juan de Pareja
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.T7327 I2 1984Juan de Pareja, the slave who prepares the paints and canvases of the artist Velazquez, describes his work with his master and the climate of Spanish court life. -
1965 -- Shadow of a Bull
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.W8182 Sh 1964Manolo 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. -
1964 -- It's Like This, Cat
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.N462 It 2015When 'Aunt Kate' introduces Dave to Cat, an orange-striped tomcat, he suddenly has a new friend who accompanies him everywhere. -
1963 -- A Wrinkle in Time
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.L5385 Wr 2012Meg 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. -
1962 -- The Bronze Bow
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.S7376 Br 1989When 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. -
1961 -- Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.O237 Is 1978Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind. -
1960 -- Onion John
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.K946 OnThe story of a friendship between a 12-year-old boy and an immigrant handyman, almost wrecked by the good intentions of the townspeople.
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1959 -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.S7376 Wi 1993In 1687, Kit Tyler moves from the Caribbean to Connecticut Colony. Her friendship for a strange, old woman leads to her trial for witchcraft. -
1958 -- Rifles for Watie
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Call Number: YOUNG ADULT PZ7.K255 Ri 1987bThe 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. -
1957 -- Miracles on Maple Hill
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.S72 Mi 1990Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill. -
1956 -- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.L348 Car 1983A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator. -
1955 -- The Wheel on the School
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.D3675 WgLina and the other children must overcome many obstacles to bring the storks back to their little Dutch village. But they don't give up, and soon they get the whole village working to make their dream come true. -
1954 -- ... And Now Miguel
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.K946 AnMiguel lives with his family on a sheep ranch in New Mexico. More than anything else, he longs to go with the men to the Sangre de Christo Mountains. -
1953 -- Secret of the Andes
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.C5296 Se 1980An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. -
1952 -- Ginger Pye
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.E749 Gi 2000The 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. -
1951 -- Amos Fortune, Free Man
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Call Number: JUV E185.97.F73 Y3The 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. -
1950 -- The Door in the Wall
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.D35 Do 1989A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
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1949 -- King of the Wind
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ10.3.H43 Ki 1976Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. -
1948 -- The Twenty-One Balloons
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.D8527 Tw 1975Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic. -
1947 -- Miss Hickory
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ8.9.B16 MiRelates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head. -
1946 -- Strawberry Girl
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.L54 St 2005The story of the feud between the Slaters and the Boyers in Florida during the 1900s. -
1945 -- Rabbit Hill
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ10.3.L39 RabNew folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers. -
1944 -- Johnny Tremain
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.F749 Jo 1993After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. -
1943 -- Adam of the Road
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.V746 AdIn thirteenth-century England an eleven-year-old boy roams the countryside as he searches for his father and his stolen dog. -
1942 -- The Matchlock Gun
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.E247 Mat 1989In 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. -
1941 -- Call It Courage
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ8.1.S75 Cal 1968Based 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. -
1940 -- Daniel Boone
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This biography chronicles the life of Daniel Boone, the famous hunter and adventurer who explored and helped settle the early West, especially Kentucky.
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1939 -- Thimble Summer
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.E724 Th 1966Unusual things begin to happen when Garnet finds a silver thimble. -
1938 -- The White Stag
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ8.1.S457 Wh 1979Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home. -
1937 -- Roller Skates
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.S269 Ro 1986The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's. -
1936 -- Caddie Woodlawn
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.B78 Cad5The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. -
1935 -- Dobry
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.S529 Do 1993A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer. -
1934 -- Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
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Call Number: JUV PS1018 .M4 1995Profiles 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. -
1933 -- Young Fu of Upper Yangtze
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.L5849 Yo 5In 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. -
1932 -- Waterless Mountain
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.A715 Wat 2014Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence. -
1931 -- The Cat Who Went to Heaven
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.C6294 Cau 2008In ancient Japan, a struggling artist is angered when his housekeeper brings home a tiny white cat he can barely afford to feed. -
1930 -- Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ8.9.F442 Hi 1957When Phoebe Preble brings her special doll, Hitty, with her everywhere she goes, Hitty experiences wonderful adventures and makes a lot of new friends.
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1929 -- The Trumpeter of Krakow
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.K294 Ts4A 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. -
1928 -- Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
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Call Number: JUV QL795.B57 M8 1968The 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. -
1927 -- Smoky the Cowhorse
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ10.3.J275 Sm 1993The 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. -
1926 -- Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.C45 Sh4Sixteen original stories reflecting the spirit of Chinese life and thought. -
1925 -- Tales from Silver Lands
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Call Number: JUV F2230.1.F6 F56 2017The folk magic of a land of silver cascades, mist-shrouded mountains, and wide pampas fills these nineteen South American stories. -
1924 -- The Dark Frigate
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.H312 Da18 1971A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew. -
1923 -- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
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Call Number: CHAPTER PZ7.L827 Vo 1988Tells the story of the good doctor who learned the languages of animals and made adventurous voyages. -
1922 -- The Story of Mankind
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Call Number: D21 .V3 2013 (3rd floor)Chronicles the history of man and civilization from primitive beginnings to the current day.
