Newbery Medal Winners, 1970-1979

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Newbery Winners from the Nineteen Seventies

There are some outstanding novels in this collection of Newbery books, and I get excited when I remember reading and enjoying them. Some of my favorites are Sing Down the Moon, The Westing Game, and The Periolous Gard. There are other excellent novels - it is so hard to pick only a few.

1979 Newbery Medal Winner 

The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)

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1979 Newbery Honor Book 

The Great Gilly Hopkins

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A Guide for Using The Great Gilly Hopkins in the Classroom

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Literature Guide: The Great Gilly Hopkins (Grades 4-8)

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1978 Newbery Medal Winner 

Bridge to Terabithia

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Bridge to Terabithia (Widescreen Edition)

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A Literature Unit for Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

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A Teaching Guide to Bridge to Terabithia (Discovering Literature)

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Scholastic Bookfiles: Bridge To Terabithia By Katherine Paterson

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1978 Newbery Honor Books 

Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey

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Ramona and Her Father

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1977 Newbery Medal Winner 

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

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A Teaching Guide to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Discovering Literature)

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A Guide for Using Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in the Classroom

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GradeSaver(tm) ClassicNotes Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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Student's Discussion Guide to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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1977 Newbery Honor Books 

A String in the Harp

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Abel's Island (Newbery Award & Honor Books)

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1976 Newbery Medal Winner 

The Grey King (The Dark is Rising Sequence)

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1976 Newbery Honor Books 

Dragonwings

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Dragonwings CD: Golden Mountain Chronicles:1903

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A Guide for Using Dragonwings in the Classroom

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The Hundred Penny Box (Picture Puffin Books)

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1975 Newbery Medal Winner 

M.C. Higgins, the Great

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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)

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A Guide for Using My Brother Sam is Dead in the Classroom

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The Perilous Gard

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Philip Hall likes me, I reckon maybe

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1974 Newbery Medal Winner 

The Slave Dancer

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Slave Dancer (Novel Units) (Teacher Guide)

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The Slave Dancer : A Unit Plan (LitPlans)

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The Slave Dancer Puzzle Pack (Print Copy)

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1873 Newbery Medal Winner 

Julie of the Wolves (rack)

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The Julie Trilogy (Julie of the Wolves)

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Julie of the Wolves Treasury Three Complete Novels

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1973 Newbery Honor Books 

The Witches of Worm

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The Upstairs Room (Trophy Newbery)

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Frog and Toad Together (I Can Read Book 2)

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1972 Newbery Medal Winner 

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy)

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A Guide for Using Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH in the Classroom

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A Teaching Guide to Mrs. Frisby & Rats of Nimh (Discovering Literature)

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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)

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1972 Newbery Honor Books 

Annie and the Old One

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Incident at Hawk's Hill

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The Headless Cupid

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The Planet of Junior Brown

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The Tombs of Atuan (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 2)

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1971 Newbery Medal Winner 

Summer of the Swans, The (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)

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1971 Newbery Honor Books 

Sing Down the Moon

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Knee-Knock Rise

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Enchantress from the Stars

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1970 Newbery Medal Winner 

Sounder

A sharecropper's family struggles after he is imprisoned for stealing food for them to eat.

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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

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1970 Newbery Book Links 

Sounder - Lesson Plans
Lesson plans and activities for teaching Sounder.

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    C-Joy C-Joy Apr 8, 2009 @ 7:58 pm
    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!

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Lensmaster Linda Jo Martin writes children's novels, so has spent many years reading books from the Newbery list. From the 1970 selections she's read Sounder, Sing Down the Moon, Julie of the Wolves, Frog and Toad Together, The Dark is Rising, The Slave Dancer, The Perilous Gard, My Brother Sam is Dead, Bridge to Terabithia, and The Westing Game.

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