Newbery Winners from the Nineteen Seventies
Contents of this lens:
1979 Newbery Medal Winner
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009) 
The Westing Game: L-I-T Guide
Amazon Price: $10.95 (as of 07/05/2009)
1979 Newbery Honor Book
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Guide for Using The Great Gilly Hopkins in the Classroom
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Literature Guide: The Great Gilly Hopkins (Grades 4-8)
Amazon Price: (as of 07/05/2009)
1978 Newbery Medal Winner
Bridge to Terabithia
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Bridge to Terabithia (Widescreen Edition)
Amazon Price: $9.49 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Literature Unit for Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Teaching Guide to Bridge to Terabithia (Discovering Literature)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/05/2009)
Scholastic Bookfiles: Bridge To Terabithia By Katherine Paterson
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1978 Newbery Honor Books
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Ramona and Her Father
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Ramona Collection, Vol. 1: Beezus and Ramona / Ramona the Pest / Ramona the Brave / Ramona and Her Father
Amazon Price: $15.59 (as of 07/05/2009)
1977 Newbery Medal Winner
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Teaching Guide to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Discovering Literature)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Guide for Using Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in the Classroom
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
GradeSaver(tm) ClassicNotes Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Student's Discussion Guide to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 07/05/2009)
1977 Newbery Honor Books
A String in the Harp
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Abel's Island (Newbery Award & Honor Books)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
1976 Newbery Medal Winner
The Grey King (The Dark is Rising Sequence)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Dark Is Rising (Boxed Set): The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, Over Sea, Under Stone, Silver on the Tree, The Grey King
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 07/05/2009)
1976 Newbery Honor Books
Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Dragonwings CD: Golden Mountain Chronicles:1903
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Guide for Using Dragonwings in the Classroom
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The Hundred Penny Box (Picture Puffin Books)
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
A lesson plan book for The Hundred penny box by Sharon Bell Mathis (Bridges, moving from the basal into literature)
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1975 Newbery Medal Winner
M.C. Higgins, the Great
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Sg M.C. Higgins the Great W/Conn
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1975 Newbery Honor Books
Figgs and Phantoms
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My Brother Sam Is Dead (Apple Signature)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Guide for Using My Brother Sam is Dead in the Classroom
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Perilous Gard
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Philip Hall likes me, I reckon maybe
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1974 Newbery Medal Winner
The Slave Dancer
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 07/05/2009)
Slave Dancer (Novel Units) (Teacher Guide)
Amazon Price: $11.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Paula Fox's "The Slave Dancer": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 12, Chapter 13)
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Slave Dancer : A Unit Plan (LitPlans)
Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Slave Dancer Puzzle Pack (Print Copy)
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 07/05/2009)
1974 Newbery Honor Book
The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Dark Is Rising (Boxed Set): The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, Over Sea, Under Stone, Silver on the Tree, The Grey King
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree; The Grey King; Greenwitch; The Dark Is Rising; and Over Sea, Under Stone
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1873 Newbery Medal Winner
Julie of the Wolves (rack)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Julie Trilogy (Julie of the Wolves)
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Julie of the Wolves Treasury Three Complete Novels
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A Guide for Using Julie of the Wolves in the Classroom
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
1973 Newbery Honor Books
The Witches of Worm (Yearling Book)
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Upstairs Room (Trophy Newbery)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Frog and Toad Together (I Can Read Book 2)
Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
1972 Newbery Medal Winner
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Guide for Using Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH in the Classroom
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
A Teaching Guide to Mrs. Frisby & Rats of Nimh (Discovering Literature)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/05/2009)
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH [Unabridged] (Audio CD)
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Puzzle Pack (CD)
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 07/05/2009)
1972 Newbery Honor Books
Annie and the Old One
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Incident at Hawk's Hill
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Headless Cupid
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Planet of Junior Brown
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
The Tombs of Atuan (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 2)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
1971 Newbery Medal Winner
Summer of the Swans, The (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
1971 Newbery Honor Books
Sing Down the Moon
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
Knee-Knock Rise
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Enchantress from the Stars
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
1970 Newbery Medal Winner
Sounder
A sharecropper's family struggles after he is imprisoned for stealing food for them to eat.
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 07/05/2009)
1970 Newbery Honor Books
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
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Our Eddie.
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Journey Outside
Amazon Price: $23.50 (as of 07/05/2009)
1970 Newbery Book Links
- Sounder - Lesson Plans
- Lesson plans and activities for teaching Sounder.
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C-Joy wrote...
A String in the Harp is the book that started my passion for reading and my passion for all things UK. I reread it occasionally (still the original copy) :) Loved Westing Game, and anyone who loves Harry Potter should read the Dark Is Rising series!
Posted April 08, 2009
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