Newbery Medal Winners, 1990-1999

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Newbery Winners From The Nineteen Nineties

Writers are under a lot of pressure these days to produce high quality novels. The competition is enormous. Consequently the cream of the crop books on this list are excellent.

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.

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.

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1999 Newbery Honor Book  

A Long Way From Chicago (Puffin Modern Classics)

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1998 Newbery Medal Winner 

Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition)

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A Guide for Using Out of the Dust in the Classroom

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Out of the Dust Study Guide

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Scholastic Bookfiles: Out Of The Dust By Karen Hesse

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1998 Newbery Honor Books 

Ella Enchanted (Trophy Newbery)

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Ella Enchanted Reading Guide (Saddleback's Focus on Reading Study Guides)

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Lily's Crossing

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Wringer

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1997 Newbery Medal Winner 

The View from Saturday

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The View From Saturday LitPlan Teacher Pack (Print Copy)

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A Guide for Using The View from Saturday in the Classroom

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1997 Newbery Honor Books 

A Girl Named Disaster

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Belle Prater's Boy

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The Moorchild (Margaret K. McElderry Book)

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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, Book 1)

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1996 Newbery Medal Winner 

The Midwife's Apprentice

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Midwife's Apprentice: A Unit Plan

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1996 Newbery Honor Books 

The Great Fire

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

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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.

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Yolandas Genius

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1995 Newbery Medal Winner 

Walk Two Moons

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Walk two moons - Teacher Guide by Novel Units, Inc.

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1995 Newbery Honor Books 

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

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Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)

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Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman: L-I-T Guide (A Study Guide for Grades 6-12) (Literature in Teaching (L-I-T) Guides)

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1994 Newbery Medal Winner 

The Giver

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A teacher's resource for The giver: By Lois Lowry (Witnesses to history)

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1994 Newbery Honor Books 

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Nonfiction)

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Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1867)

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Crazy Lady! (Trophy Newbery)

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1993 Newbery Medal Winner 

Missing May

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1993 Newbery Honor Books 

Somewhere In The Darkness

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What Hearts (Laura Geringer Books)

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The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

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Teacher's Discussion Guide to The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

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Student's Discussion Guide to The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

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1992 Newbery Medal Winners 

Shiloh

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Shiloh Trilogy Paperback Boxed Set

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1992 Newbery Honor Books 

Nothing But The Truth: A Documentary Novel

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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

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1991 Newbery Medal Winner 

Maniac Magee

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Teacher's Discussion Guide to Maniac Magee

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1991 Newbery Honor Book 

The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle (Orchard Classics)

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1990 Newbery Medal Winner 

Number the Stars

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1990 Newbery Honor Books 

The Winter Room

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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Readers Circle)

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Shabanu: daughter of the wind: Teacher's resource manual, (Perma-guides to literature)

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Afternoon of the Elves

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    GIN5A GIN5A Oct 20, 2009 @ 7:34 pm
    I AM 11 AND I HAD TO LOOK AT THIS FOR SCHOOL BUT I AM FALLING IN LOVE MORE AND MORE WITH THIS BY THE SECOND(DOES NOT INCLUDE MY OBSESION WITH BOOKS) I LOVE LOOKING AT ALL THE AWARD WINNING BOOKS ITS JUST SO FUN TO READ AND BUY BOOKS AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ MORE OFTEN FOR YOUR SAKE
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    kab kab Aug 29, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
    I am lensrolling this to my lens on the 1998 winner Out of the Dust.

 

 

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