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unusual facts about Newbery Honor



Bill Brittain

William E. "Bill" Brittain (December 16, 1930 in Rochester, New York – December 16, 2011) was an American author most famous for his writings of the fictional New England village of Coven Tree, including The Wish Giver, a Newbery Honor Book.

Elijah of Buxton

It won the 2008 Newbery Honor, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and the Book of the Year for Children Award of the Canadian Library Association.

Haveli

Haveli is an also a novel by Suzanne Fisher Staples and is a sequel to her Newbery Award-winning novel Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind.

James Cloyd Bowman

Bowman received a Newbery Honor in 1938 for Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time about the "legend" of Pecos Bill.

Naselle, Washington

Jennifer L. Holm's Newbery Honor-winning novel Our Only May Amelia is set in pioneer Naselle, then spelled "Nasel", and is based on Holm family documents of life as a Finnish-American frontier family.

Reformed Mennonite

Newbery Honor-winning Kathryn Lasky's novel Beyond the Divide is ostensibly about a fourteen-year-old Amish girl heading west with her father in 1849 after he has been shunned by their community for attending a funeral outside the faith.


see also

Jane Leslie Conly

1993: Crazy Lady! (Newbery Honor Winner, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 1994)