1947 Newbery Award Winner
Miss Hickory by Call Number: F B1515m 1977ISBN: 9780140309560Publication Date: 1977-05-26A Newbery Award winner! Most dolls lead a comfortable but unadventurous life. This was true of Miss Hickory until the fateful day that her owner, Ann, moves from her New Hampshire home to attend school in Boston—leaving Miss Hickory behind. For a small doll whose body is an apple-wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, the prospect of spending a New Hampshire winter alone is frightening indeed. In this classic modern day fairy tale, what’s a doll to do?
1947 Newbery Honor Titles
The wonderful year by Call Number: F Ad17w- Big tree by
A giant five-thousand-year-old Sequoia, called Wa-No-Na by the Indians, tells its life story.
Call Number: 585.2 B863b 1946
The Heavenly Tenants by
The Marvell family unintentionally leaves their Wisconsin farm unattended when they visit their grandmother in Virginia, but a suprising group of close friends comes to the rescue.
Call Number: F M445h 1992ISBN: 0930407253Publication Date: 2004-01-01
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by
A Newberry Honor Book Amidst great mystery, Hugh is left in the care of Glastonbury Abbey by his father who must flee to England too swiftly to be burdened by a crippled son. Ashamed of his physical weakness, yet possessed of a stout heart, Hugh finds that life at the abbey is surprisingly full in this year 1171, in the turbulent days of King Henry II. Hugh, his friend Dickon and their strange friend, the mad Bleheris, uncover a treasure trove, and with it a deeper mystery of the sort that could only occur in Glastonbury where Joseph of Arimithea was said to have lived out his last years. Before all is done, more is resolved than Hugh could ever have hoped.Ages 10-up
Call Number: F J552hISBN: 1883937485Publication Date: 2000-05-01
