Newbery Winners From The Nineteen Nineties
My favorite novels from this list are Holes and Walk Two Moons.
I'm also a big fan of two non-fiction books included on the 1990-1999 list: The Great Fire and The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane.
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1999 Newbery Medal Winner
Holes
A boy sentenced to serve at a juvenile detention facility must dig holes in the surface of a dry lake bed daily. At first there seems to be no sane reason for the daily torture routine of digging a new hole, but as the story expands we see several layers of activity, past and present. This is one of the most exciting Newbery books I've read from an author's perspective, because it clearly shows layering in a story and how it contributes to the whole. I highly recommend this to anyone wanting a fantastic book to read.
1999 Newbery Honor Book
1998 Newbery Medal Winner
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1996 Newbery Medal Winner
1996 Newbery Honor Books
What Jamie Saw
This is a short novel on the rather depressing topic of domestic violence and a young traumatized boy's reaction to it. Thankfully it takes place after the boy's mother has taken her children to a safe retreat, but there are flashbacks.
1995 Newbery Medal Winner
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1990 Newbery Honor Books
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Newbery Medal Winners, 1930-1939
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Newbery Medal Winners, 1940-1949
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Newbery Medal Winners, 1922-1929
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Early Newbery Medal winners included short story collections, non-fiction, and novels. Many are out of print, difficult to locate, and rare. Books older than 1927 may now be in the public domain. This lens has links to Amazon pages for all the Newber...
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Newbery Medal Winners, 1950-1959
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At the beginning of this decade, children's books were still fairly simplistic, but by the end, we're favored with an outstanding historical novel, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, that sets a precedent for the increased quality of children's books in th...
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Newbery Medal Winners, 1970-1979
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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 novel...
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Newbery Medal Winners, 1980-1989
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This was an amazing decade for Newbery Medal and Honor Books. During this period two of the winners were poetic. A non-fiction book won the medal for the first time in many years, and two others were honor books. Plus there were many excellent novels...
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Newbery Medal Winners, 1960-1969
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