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1nmhale
Gen 29, 2009, 12:59 am

Since I am one of those compulsive persons who likes list-making, I thought this was the perfect spot to keep visible track for myself of my progress. I'll just copy out the list and cross out the books that I have and will have finished. ... Is that an acceptable topic to post here? Please tell me if not, and I'll stop. :)

2nmhale
Modificato: Mar 27, 2023, 2:10 pm

2019 Meg Medina - Merci Suarez Changes Gears
2018 Erin Entrada Kelly - Hello, Universe
2017 Kelly Barnhill - The Girl Who Drank the Moon
2016 Matt de la Pena - Last Stop on Market Street
2015 Kwame Alexander - The Crossover
2014 Kate DiCamillo - Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventure
2013 Katherine Applegate - The One and Only Ivan
2012 Jack Gantos - Dead End in Norvelt
2011 Clare Vanderpool - Moon Over Manifest
2010 Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me
2009 Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book
2008 Laura Amy Schlitz - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
2007 Susan Patron - The Higher Power of Lucky
2006 Lynne Rae Perkins - Criss Cross
2005 Cynthia Kadohata - Kira-Kira
2004 Kate DiCamillo - The Tale of Despereaux
2003 Avi - Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2002 Linda Sue Park - A Single Shard
2001 Richard Peck - A Year Down Yonder
2000 Christopher Paul Curtis - Bud, Not Buddy
1999 Louis Sachar - Holes
1998 Karen Hesse - Out of the Dust
1997 E. L. Konigsburg - The View from Saturday
1996 Karen Cushman - The Midwife's Apprentice
1995 Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
1994 Lois Lowry - The Giver
1993 Cynthia Rylant - Missing May
1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Shiloh
1991 Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee
1990 Lois Lowry - Number the Stars

3nmhale
Modificato: Apr 18, 2023, 2:59 pm

1989 Paul Fleischman - Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1988 Russell Freedman - Lincoln: A Photobiography
1987 Sid Fleischman - The Whipping Boy
1986 Patricia MacLachlan - Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985 Robin McKinley - The Hero and the Crown
1984 Beverly Cleary - Dear Mr. Henshaw
1983 Cynthia Voigt - Dicey's Song
1982 Nancy Willard - A Visit to William Blake's Inn
1981 Katherine Paterson - Jacob Have I Loved
1980 Joan Blos - A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
1979 Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game
1978 Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia
1977 Mildred Taylor - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 Susan Cooper - The Grey King
1975 Virginia Hamilton - M. C. Higgins, the Great
1974 Paula Fox - The Slave Dancer
1973 Jean Craighead George - Julie of the Wolves
1972 Robert C. O'Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 Betsy Byars - Summer of the Swans
1970 William H. Armstrong - Sounder

4nmhale
Modificato: Giu 30, 2009, 2:07 pm

1969 Lloyd Alexander - The High King
1968 E. L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1967 Irene Hunt - Up a Road Slowly
1966 Elizabeth Borton de Treviño - I, Juan de Pareja
1965 Maia Wojciechowska - Shadow of a Bull
1964 Emily Cheney Neville - It's Like This, Cat
1963 Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
1962 Elizabeth George Speare - The Bronze Bow
1961 Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
1960 Joseph Krumgold - Onion John
1959 Elizabeth George Speare - The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958 Harold Keith - Rifles for Watie
1957 Virginia Sorensen - Miracles on Maple Hill
1956 Jean Lee Latham - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1955 Meindert DeJong - The Wheel on the School
1954 Joseph Krumgold - ...And Now Miguel
1953 Ann Nolan Clark - Secret of the Andes
1952 Eleanor Estes - Ginger Pye
1951 Elizabeth Yates - Amos Fortune, Free Man
1950 Marguerite de Angeli - The Door in the Wall

5nmhale
Modificato: Giu 30, 2009, 2:09 pm

1949 Marguerite Henry - King of the Wind
1948 William Pène du Bois - The Twenty-One Balloons
1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey - Miss Hickory
1946 Lois Lenski - Strawberry Girl
1945 Robert Lawson - Rabbit Hill
1944 Esther Forbes - Johnny Tremain
1943 Elizabeth Gray Vining - Adam of the Road
1942 Walter D. Edmonds - The Matchlock Gun
1941 Armstrong Sperry - Call It Courage
1940 James Daugherty - Daniel Boone
1939 Elizabeth Enright - Thimble Summer
1938 Kate Seredy - The White Stag
1937 Ruth Sawyer - Roller Skates
1936 Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn
1935 Monica Shannon - Dobry

6nmhale
Modificato: Lug 5, 2015, 7:51 pm

1934 Cornelia Meigs - Invincible Louisa
1933 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis - Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1932 Laura Adams Armer - Waterless Mountain
1931 Elizabeth Coatsworth - The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1930 Rachel Field - Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1929 Eric P. Kelly - The Trumpeter of Krakow
1928 Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1927 Will James - Smoky the Cow Horse
1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman - Shen of the Sea
1925 Charles Finger - Tales from Silver Lands
1924 Charles Hawes - The Dark Frigate
1923 Hugh Lofting - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
1922 Hendrik Willem van Loon - The Story of Mankind

7nmhale
Modificato: Ago 8, 2010, 10:44 pm

Whew! I have my work cut out for me. And I haven't even started or thought about the honors books yet...
Sounds like fun. :)

8juliette07
Feb 1, 2009, 6:40 am

Brilliant idea and a great way to keep track and share your progress. Sorry I didn't see it sooner =)
I have kept a pencil and paper list (fountain pen list actually) since I began my personal challenge to read them all.

I will do the same and keep track here as well !

9nmhale
Feb 3, 2009, 3:33 pm

Thanks Julie! I'm sure that I have started several pencil and paper lists at some point, and lost them all.

10juliette07
Feb 3, 2009, 5:13 pm

Anyone else out there interested? If so please come right in and begin your own thread and let the conversation begin!

11nmhale
Feb 5, 2009, 1:51 pm

Well, I read a new Newbery. :)

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Is it just me, or are a lot of the early Newberys set in medieval England?

This is one of the earlier winners of the award, and also a short read, which prompted me to pick it up and kick off my personal Newbery challenge with a quick start.

The story is set in medieval England, and focuses on Robin, a young noble boy who is supposed to become a knight, but falls ill and finds himself unable to use his legs. What will he do when his destiny, which he thought to be set in stone, is suddenly altered?

The message of this short story is sweet and practical: if you put aside life's disappointments, and apply your best to whatever comes your way, you will find a door in the wall, or another way of fulfilling your destiny. We root for young Robin to grow past his depression and selfishness and emerge the mature young man that he becomes. The other characters, Brother Luke and John the minstrel, are wholesome characters who help Robin along his journey. In fact, almost everyone we meet in the story are likable, good people. That may have been my biggest complaint - that everything is so black and white, it lacks a lot of dramatic tension. We do have some bad guys, such as the scruffy criminals and the faceless Welsh soldiers, and we have some adventures, of the old fashioned questing kind, but the bad guys are clearly all bad and the outcome is never in doubt, because it is such a straightforward story; the good guys always win. This type of telling is appropriate for a story set in the times of knights and maidens, but lacks some of the cinematic spark of a more layered tale. A good old-fashioned story, but it does not compare to some of the other Newbery titles I've read.

12nmhale
Feb 20, 2013, 12:31 pm

Updated my lists with a couple more read. I finally managed time to read The Graveyard Book, which was fun. Still hoping to have a time free from other readings where I can just focus on exclusive Newbery reading. Maybe this summer. :)

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