By Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Deals annotations for the medal and honor books because the inception of the Newbery and Caldecott Awards. This e-book discusses the phrases and definitions that experience advanced for either awards and the importance of the awards as an overview of kid's literature.
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Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff. Delacorte. During her 1944 summer vacation in the Rockaways, ten-year-old Lily’s best friend moves away and her beloved father Poppy goes off to war. Then Lily meets Albert, a young Hungarian refugee with whom she builds a poignant friendship based on shared loneliness, secrets, and lies. Wringer by Jerry Spinelli. Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins. Palmer LaRue dreads his approaching birthday because he does not want to be a wringer, one of the ten-year-old boys who breaks the necks of pigeons wounded at the town’s pigeon shoot fund-raiser.
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle. Farrar Straus Giroux. Sixteen-year-old Vicky and her family spend the summer on a New England island with her dying grandfather. All summer long she and her family are preoccupied with the mysteries of life, death, and eternity, yet there is still time for Vicky to help with a Marine Biology Station dolphin project and to date two boys. The Newbery Awar d s 41 1980 Award A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830–32 by Joan W. Blos. Scribner.
Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg, illustrated by the author. Atheneum. Having carefully planned how and to where they will run away, Claudia and her little brother, James (and his money), board a bus, head to New York City, and go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There they hide in washrooms, sleep on ancient beds, and get involved in solving an exciting mystery. The Newbery Awar d s 49 HONORS Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg, illustrated by the author.
