Newbery Medal & Honor Winners
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH #1)
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Paperboy
The paper route poses challenges, but it’s a run-in with the neighborhood junkman, a bully and thief, that stirs up real trouble–and puts the boy’s life, as well as that of his family’s devoted housekeeper, in danger.
Runt
From the very start, Runt struggles in the harsh wild world of the wolves. He tries learning along with his brothers and sisters, but makes serious mistakes. It’s hard pleasing his father, King, and the other wolves. If only Runt could prove himself to his powerful father and family. . . .
Vaino: A Boy of New Finland
Tales and legends from Finland form the background to this story of a modern Finnish boy who is a student during the Finnish Revolution of World War I that freed that country from oppressive Russian rule.
Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales
“The Fionn Saga is one of the oldest and strangest of the Gaelic sagas: it is also one of the best remembered, for to this day in Gaelic speaking Scotland and in every part of Ireland Finn McCool is a household name. If there is a gulch anywhere he has leapt over it; if there is a huge boulder it is one that he cast once-upon-a-time as a stone; if there is a gap in a mountain-crest he has lifted the bit from it. He is “giant-big” in the minds of the old folk and the children. Story-tellers can recite long poems in intricate metre all abut Fionn and Usheen and Keeltya and the others.”
-from the author’s foreword.
Jumping-off Place
Pran of Albania
“Pran is a daughter of the sturdy mountain tribes of Albania – old enough to be betrothed in accordance with the ancient tribal traditions.
This is the story of Pran and her life in the mountains and the refugee barracks at Skodra; of her friend, the laughing blue-eyed Nush and his secret; of her adventures in war times and peace, of her betrothal and the strange vow she takes.”
Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland
This is a fictionalized biography of the French Revolutionary patriot and writer Jeanne Manon Roland de la Platiere (1754-1793), who became known simply by Madame Roland. She was the daughter of a Paris engraver who encouraged his daughter’s interest in music, painting, and literature. As a young girl, she told to her grand-mother: “I’ll call myself daughter of the Seine,” and as an adult she often said that the river was part of her soul. As a young woman she became interested in the radical ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau and the movement for equality. She shared these enthusiasms with her husband, whom she married in 1780. After the outbreak of the Revolution, she formed a salon of followers, who late became known as the Girondists. Under the constitutional monarchy, her husband became minister of the interior, a post he held after the monarchy was overthrown. Madame Roland both directed her husband’s career and influenced the important politicians of the period.
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