The Newbery Award-Winners
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The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century
British bookseller
John Newbery. It 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 contribution to American literature
for children
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2003 Medal Winner:
Crispin:
The Cross of Lead
by Avi ....
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2003 Honor Books:
The House of the
Scorpion by
Nancy Farmer....
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Pictures of Hollis
Woods by
Patricia Reilly Giff....
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Hoot by
Carl
Hiaasen....
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A Corner of The
Universe by
Ann M. Martin....
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Surviving the
Applewhites by
Stephanie S. Tolan....
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2002 Medal
Winner:
A
Single Shard by
Linda Sue Park....
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2002 Honor Books:
Everything on a Waffle by
Polly Horvath....
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Carver: A Life In
Poems by
Marilyn Nelson....
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2001 Medal
Winner:
A
Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck....
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2001 Honor Books:
Hope Was Here by
Joan Bauer....
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Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo....
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Joey Pigza Loses
Control by
Jack Gantos....
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The Wandererby
Sharon Creech....
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2000 Medal
Winner:
Bud,
Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis....
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2000 Honor Books:
Getting Near to Baby
by Audrey Couloumbis
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Our Only May Amelia
by Jennifer L. Holm
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26 Fairmount Avenue
by Tomie dePaola
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Winners from
earlier years are listed below
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1999 Medal
Winner:
Holes
by Louis Sachar
1999 Honor Book:
o A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
1998 Medal
Winner:
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
(Scholastic)
1998 Honor Books:
o Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
o Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
o Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1997 Medal
Winner:
The View from Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
Honor Books:
o A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
o Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
o The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
o Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
1996 Medal
Winner:
The Midwife's
Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Honor Books:
o What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
o The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
o Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
o The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
1995 Medal
Winner:
Walk Two Moons by
Sharon Creech
Honor Books:
o Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
o The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
1994 Medal
Winner:
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Honor Books:
o Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
o Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
o Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
1993 Medal
Winner:
Missing May by Cynthia
Rylant
Honor Books:
o What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
o The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
by Patricia McKissack
o Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
1992 Medal
Winner:
Shiloh by Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor
Honor Books:
o Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
o The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
by Russell Freedman
1991 Medal
Winner:
Maniac Magee by Jerry
Spinelli
Honor Book:
o The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
1990 Medal
Winner:
Number the Stars by
Lois Lowry
Honor Books:
o Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
o Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
o The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
1989 Medal
Winner:
Joyful Noise: Poems
for Two Voices by Paul
Fleischman
Honor Books:
o In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
by Virginia Hamilton
o Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
1988 Medal
Winner:
Lincoln: A
Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Honor Books:
o After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
o Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987 Medal
Winner:
The Whipping Boy by
Sid Fleischman
Honor Books:
o A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
o On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
o Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
by Patricia Lauber
1986 Medal
Winner:
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
Honor Books:
o Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun
by Rhoda Blumberg
o Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1985 Medal
Winner:
The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley
Honor Books:
o Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
o The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
o One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
1984 Medal
Winner:
Dear Mr. Henshaw by
Beverly Cleary
Honor Books:
o The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
o A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
o Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
o The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
1983 Medal
Winner:
Dicey's Song by
Cynthia Voigt
Honor Books:
o The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
o Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
o Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
o Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
o Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
1982 Medal
Winner:
A Visit to William
Blake's Inn: Poems for
Innocent and Experienced Travelers
by Nancy Willard
Honor Books:
o Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
o Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka
Siegal (Farrar)
1981 Medal
Winner:
Jacob Have I Loved by
Katherine Paterson
Honor Books:
o The Fledgling by Jane Langton
o A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
1980 Medal
Winner:
A Gathering of Days: A
New England Girl's
Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
Honor Book:
o The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David
Kherdian
1979 Medal
Winner:
The Westing Game by
Ellen Raskin
Honor Book:
o The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978 Medal
Winner:
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
Honor Books:
o Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
o Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
1977 Medal
Winner:
Roll of Thunder, Hear
My Cry by Mildred D.
Taylor
Honor Books:
o Abel's Island by William Steig
o A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
1976 Medal
Winner:
The Grey King by Susan
Cooper
Honor Books:
o The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
o Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
1975 Medal
Winner:
M. C. Higgins, the
Great by Virginia Hamilton
Honor Books:
o Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
o My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher
Collier
o The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
o Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene
1974 Medal
Winner:
The Slave Dancer by
Paula Fox
Honor Book:
o The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
1973 Medal
Winner:
Julie of the Wolves by
Jean Craighead George
Honor Books:
o Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
o The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
o The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1972 Medal
Winner:
Mrs. Frisby and the
Rats of NIMH by Robert
C. O'Brien
Honor Books:
o Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
o The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
o The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
o Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
o The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1971 Medal
Winner:
Summer of the Swans by
Betsy Byars
Honor Books:
o Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
o Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
o Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1970 Medal
Winner:
Sounder by William H.
Armstrong
Honor Books:
o Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
o The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
by Janet Gaylord Moore
o Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
1969 Medal
Winner:
The High King by Lloyd
Alexander
Honor Books:
o To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
o When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1968 Medal
Winner:
From the Mixed-Up
Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Honor Books:
o Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
by E. L. Konigsburg
o The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
o The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
o The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1967 Medal
Winner:
Up a Road Slowly by
Irene Hunt
Honor Books:
o The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
o Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
o The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik
1966 Medal
Winner:
I, Juan de Pareja by
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Honor Books:
o The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
o The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
o The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
1965 Medal
Winner:
Shadow of a Bull by
Maia Wojciechowska
Honor Book:
o Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1964 Medal
Winner:
It's Like This, Cat by
Emily Neville
Honor Books:
o Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
o The Loner by Ester Wier
1963 Medal
Winner:
A Wrinkle in Time by
Madeleine L'Engle
Honor Books:
o Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland
by Leclaire Alger
o Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
1962 Medal
Winner:
The Bronze Bow by
Elizabeth George Speare
Honor Books:
o Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
o The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
o Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz
1961 Medal
Winner:
Island of the Blue
Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Honor Books:
o America Moves Forward: A History for Peter
by Gerald W. Johnson
o Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
o The Cricket In Times Square by George Thompson
1960 Medal
Winner:
Onion John by Joseph
Krumgold
Honor Books:
o My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
o America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
o The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
1959 Medal
Winner:
The Witch of Blackbird
Pond by Elizabeth George
Speare
Honor Books:
o The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
o Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong
o Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
o The Perilous Road by William O. Steele
1958 Medal
Winner:
Rifles for Watie by
Harold Keith
Honor Books:
o The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
o Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
o The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
o Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko
1957 Medal
Winner:
Miracles on Maple Hill
by Virginia Sorenson
Honor Books:
o Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
o The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
o Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
o The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
o Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
1956 Medal
Winner:
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham
Honor Books:
o The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
o The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
o Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
1955 Medal
Winner:
The Wheel on the
School by Meindert DeJong
Honor Books:
o Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
o Banner In The Sky by James Ullman
1954 Medal
Winner:
...And Now Miguel by
Joseph Krumgold
Honor Books:
o All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
o Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
o Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
o Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
o Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff
1953 Medal
Winner:
Secret of the Andes by
Ann Nolan Clark
Honor Books:
o Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
o Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
o Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
o The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
o Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster
1952 Medal
Winner:
Ginger Pye by Eleanor
Estes
Honor Books:
o Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
o Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
o The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
o The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
o The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
1951 Medal
Winner:
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Honor Books:
o Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
o Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
o Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
o The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
1950 Medal
Winner:
The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite de Angeli
Honor Books:
o Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
o The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
o Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
o George Washington by Genevieve Foster
o Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin
by Walter & Marion Havighurst
1949 Medal
Winner:
King of the Wind by
Marguerite Henry
Honor Books:
o Seabird by Holling C. Holling
o Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin
o My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
o Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps
1948 Medal
Winner:
The Twenty-One
Balloons by William Pène
du Bois
Honor Books:
o Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
o Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
o The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot
by Catherine Besterman
o The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories
by Harold Courlander
o Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
1947 Medal
Winner:
Miss Hickory by
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Honor Books:
o Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
o Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
o The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
o The Avion My Uncle Flew by Darwin L. Teilhet
o The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett
1946 Medal
Winner:
Strawberry Girl by
Lois Lenski
Honor Books:
o Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
o The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
o Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
o New Found World by Katherine Shippen
1945 Medal
Winner:
Rabbit Hill by Robert
Lawson
Honor Books:
o The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
o The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
o Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
o Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton
1944 Medal
Winner:
Johnny Tremain by
Esther Forbes
Honor Books:
o These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
o Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
o Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
o Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
1943 Medal
Winner:
Adam of the Road by
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Honor Books:
o The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
o Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt
1942 Medal
Winner:
The Matchlock Gun by
Walter Edmonds
Honor Books:
o Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
o George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
o Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
o Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
1941 Medal
Winner:
Call It Courage by
Armstrong Sperry
Honor Books:
o Blue Willow by Doris Gates
o Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
o The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
o Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall
1940 Medal
Winner:
Daniel Boone by James
Daugherty
Honor Books:
o The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
o Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
by Mabel Robinson
o By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
o Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader
1939 Medal
Winner:
Thimble Summer by
Elizabeth Enright
Honor Books:
o Nino by Valenti Angelo
o Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
o Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
o Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot
by Jeanette Eaton
o Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1938 Medal
Winner:
The White Stag by Kate
Seredy
Honor Books:
o Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
o Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
o On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1937 Medal
Winner:
Roller Skates by Ruth
Sawyer
Honor Books:
o Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
o Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
o The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
o Winterbound by Margery Bianco
o The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
o Audubon by Constance Rourke
1936 Medal
Winner:
Caddie Woodlawn by
Carol Ryrie Brink
Honor Books:
o Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
o The Good Master by Kate Seredy
o Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
o All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry
1935 Medal
Winner:
Dobry by Monica Shannon
Honor Books:
o Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
o Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
o Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum
1934 Medal
Winner:
Invincible Louisa: The
Story of the Author
of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
Honor Books:
o The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
o Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
o ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
o Winged Girl of Knossos by Allena Best
o New Land by Sarah Schmidt
o Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic
Colum
o Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
o Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle
1933 Medal
Winner:
Young Fu of the Upper
Yangtze by Elizabeth
Lewis
Honor Books:
o Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
o The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde
Swift
o Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon
1932 Medal
Winner:
Waterless Mountain by
Laura Adams Armer
Honor Books:
o The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
o Calico Bush by Rachel Field
o Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
o Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
o Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
o Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould
Davis
1931 Medal
Winner:
The Cat Who Went to
Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Honor Books:
o Floating Island by Anne Parrish
o The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida
Malkus
o Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
o Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
o Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
o Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
o Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
o Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen
1930 Medal
Winner:
Hitty, Her First
Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Honor Books:
o A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette
Eaton
o Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
o Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
o The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
o Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
o Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift
1929 Medal
Winner:
The Trumpeter of
Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Honor Books:
o Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
o Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
o The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
o Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
o Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
o Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney
1928 Medal
Winner:
Gay Neck, the Story
of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal
Mukerji (Dutton)
Honor Books:
o The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young (Longmans)
o Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
1927 Medal
Winner:
Smoky, the Cowhorse by
Will James (Scribner)
Honor Books:
o [None recorded]
1926 Medal
Winner:
Shen of the Sea by
Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
Honor Book:
o The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by
Padraic
Colum (Macmillan)
1925 Medal
Winner:
Tales from Silver
Lands by Charles Finger
Honor Books:
o Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
o The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
1924 Medal
Winner:
The Dark Frigate by
Charles Hawes
Honor Books:
o [None recorded]
1923 Medal
Winner:
The Voyages of Doctor
Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Honor Books:
o [None recorded]
1922 Medal
Winner:
The Story of Mankind
by Hendrik Willem van
Loon
Honor Books:
o The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
o Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
o The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in
Search
of Adventure by William Bowen
o The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic
Colum
o The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs
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