Cornelia Meigs
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Will these two siblings help solve a family mystery? Find out in one of the earliest Newberry Honor Award winners!
Brother and sister, Oliver and Janet, are excited to spend their summer with their cousin Jasper, who has always been cheerful and fun to be around. However, when the children arrive at his home, Jasper is despondent and distracted-nothing like the cousin they know. Eventually, the children discover that their cousin has been having...
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Young Nicholas Drury has his hands full between looking after his ailing uncle and tending to the family business, a Massachusetts shipyard. Since the recent end of the Revolutionary War, shipbuilding is in decline and everyone in the town of Brascombe is feeling the economic pinch. Just as Nicholas is on the verge of giving up and declaring bankruptcy, he notices footprints in his backyard that lead him to new friends, a dangerous secret, and a plan...
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IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
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This biography won the Newbery Medal for the year in which it was first published. Since then it has found thousands upon thousands of readers who have delighted in its vivid portrayal of Louisa May Alcott and her eventful career. With this new edition, issued in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of LITTLE WOMEN, many more readers will meet the real Louisa. Here she is, acting in her own play in the barn behind the Alcott home,...
5) Swift rivers
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Newbery Honor Book volume 1933
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 11
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After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.
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The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACK™ assembles seven classic YA books, from fiction to biography, written by some of the most celebrated 20th century children's authors. Included in this volume are:
IT'S LIKE THIS, CAT, by Emily Cheney Neville (Newbery Medal Winner, 1964)
RUNNER OF THE MOUNTAIN TOPS: THE LIFE OF LOUIS AGASSIZ, by Mabel Louise Robinson (A Newbery Honor Book, 1940)
THE WINDY HILL, by Cornelia Meigs (A Newbery Honor Book, 1922)
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