Newbery Honor Books

ADVENTURE

FIC BRI
Brink, Carol. Caddie Woodlawn. The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

J FIC DUB
Du Bois, William Pène The Twenty-one Balloons Relates 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.

FIC FLE
Fleischman, Sid.  The Whipping Boy.  A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

FIC FUN
Funke, Cornelia Caroline.  The Thief Lord.  Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.

J FIC GEO
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-.  Julie of the Wolves.  While running away from   home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl become lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by awolf pack.

J FIC HAM
Hamilton , Virginia .  M. C. Higgins, the great. 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.

FIC HEN
Henry, Marguerite King of the Wind. 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.

J FIC KON
Konigsburg, E. L.  From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E.Frankweiler.  Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York 's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.

FIC LAT
Latham, Jean Lee.  Carry on, Mr. Bowditch.  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."

FIC LEW
Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman, Young Fu of the UpperYangtze.  The adventures of a young coppersmith's apprentice in China .

J FIC ODE
O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989.  Island of the Blue Dolphins.  Records 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.

J FIC RAS
Raskin, Ellen The Westing Game. 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.

J FIC SAW
Sawyer, Ruth, 1880-1970.  Roller Skates.  The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.

FIC SPE
Sperry, Armstrong. Call it Courage.  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.

FIC TUR
Turner, Megan Whalen. The Thief. Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods.

J FIC VIN
Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 1902-.  Adam of the Road.  The adventures of an eleven-year-old boy in 13th century England as he searches for his father and his dog.  

ANIMAL STORIES  

FIC COA
Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane.  The Cat Who Went to Heaven. A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune.

FIC EST
Estes, Eleanor. Ginger Pye. 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.

FIC NEV
Neville, Emily Cheney.  It's Like This, Cat.  A quietly humorous story of one of a kind of contemporary New York City boyhood, a fourteen-year-old and his family, his friends, and a stray tomcat.

FIC BAI
Bailey, Carolyn. Miss Hickory. Miss Hickory, a country woman with an applewood twig body and a hickory nut head, survives a New Hampshire winter in the company of Crow, Bullfrog, and Groundhog.

BIOGRAPHY

J B ALC
Meigs, Cornelia, Invincible Louisa : the story of the author of Little women.

J B LIN
Freedman, Russell.  Lincoln : a Photobiography. Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.

CONTEMPORARY  

J FIC BYA
Byars, Betsy.  The Summer of the Swans. A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.

FIC CLE
Cleary, Beverly.  Dear Mr. Henshaw. In 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.

FIC CUR
Curtis, Christopher Paul.  The Watsons go to Birmingham.  The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint , Michigan , are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

J FIC PAT
Paterson, Katherine.  Bridge to Terabithia. 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.

FIC PAT
Paterson, Katherine.  Jacob Have I loved.  Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name, by her twin sister Louise finally begins to find her identity.

FIC VOI
Voigt, Cynthia.  Dicey's Song.  Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

FANTASY

FIC ALE
Alexander, Lloyd.  The High King.  In this fifth and final chronicle of Prydain, the forces of good and evil meet in ultimate confrontation.

J FIC COO
Cooper, Susan.  The Grey King.  Will Stanton , visiting in Wales , is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers. plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

J FIC LAW
Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957.  Rabbit Hill. 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.

J FIC MCK
McKinley, Robin.  The Hero and the Crown.  Aerin, 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.

J FIC OBR
O'Brien, Robert C.  Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh.  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.  

HISTORICAL FICTION  

FIC BLO
Blos, Joan W.  A Gathering of Days: a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : The journal of a fourteen-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.

FIC CUS
Chushman, Karen. Catherine Called Birdy. The thirteen year old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

FIC DE
De Angeli, Marguerite. The Door in the Wall.   A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns  recognition from the King.

FIC EDM
Edmonds, Walter -.  The Matchlock Gun.  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.

J FIC FOR
Forbes, Esther.  Johnny Tremain.  A young apprentice silversmith growing up in Boston during the Revolutionary War becomes involved with such patriots as Hancock, Otis, and Samuel Adams.

FIC FOX
Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer. 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.

J FIC KEI
Keith, Harold, 1903-.  Rifles for Watie.  The struggles and hardships faced by Jeff Bussey on his 300-mile escape route during the Civil War

J FIC KEL
Kelly, Eric Philbrook, The trumpeter of Krakow . 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.

J FIC KRU
Krumgold, Joseph, 1908.  Onion John.  His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.  

FIC KUR

Krumgold, Joseph. And now Miguel.  The young son of a New Mexico sheep rancher longs to go with the men when they take the sheep to the Sangre de Christo Mountains.

FIC LOW
Lowry, Lois.  Number the Stars.  New York : Dell, 1990, c1989. In 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.

J FIC MAC
MacLachlan, Patricia.  Sarah, plain and Tall. When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

J FIC SPE
Speare, Elizabeth George.  The Witch of Blackbird Pond.  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.

J FIC TAY
Taylor, Mildred D.  Roll of thunder, Hear My Cry. An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children don't understand.

FIC SPE
Speare, Elizabeth George.  The Bronze Bow.  A young boy seeks revenge against the Romans for killing his parents, but is turned away from vengeance by Jesus.

468 TRE
Treviño, Elizabeth.  Yo, Juan de Pareja.  Juan de Pareja, the slave who prepares the paints and canvases of the artist Velázquez, describes his work with his master and the climate of Spanish court life.

POETRY/PROSE  

FIC HES
Hesse, Karen. In a series of poems, fifteen year old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s farm during thee dust bowl years of the depression.

811 FLE
Fleishman, Paul. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices.

811 WIL
Willard, Nancy . A Visit to William Blake's Inn : poems for innocent and experienced travelers.   Harcourt Brace, c1981.  A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn.

SCIENCE FICTION  

FIC FAR
Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion. In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States .

J FIC FAR
Farmer, Nancy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: a novel.  In 2194 in Zimbabwe , General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a

FIC LEN
L'Engle, Madeleine.  A Wrinkle in Time.  Three extra-terrestrial beings take Meg and her friends to another world.

J FIC LOW
Lowry, Lois.  The Giver.  Given 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.

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