This is an old revision of the document!
I know that the NLS already created a Newbery page in their Kids Zone, but it looks like its updates lag a bit.
Please feel free to add to or edit the list. I have not looked up many titles. I plan to work off of the NLS listing and see if more DB options are available, etc.
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Author: Katherine Applegate
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Ivan the gorilla has lived comfortably for years in a down-and-out, circus-themed mall. But when baby elephant Ruby arrives, Ivan decides that he must find her a better life.
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Author: Steve Sheinkin
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ANNOTATION: Award-winning author recounts the history of the atom bomb and the race among the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union to build–or steal–the deadly weapon during World War II.
By Laura Amy Schlitz
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ANNOTATION: 1860. Puppeteer Grisini and his two orphaned assistants are accused of kidnapping when a young girl vanishes shortly after they perform at her twelfth birthday party. The trio flees London–but the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival.
Author: Sheila Turnage
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Author: Jack Gantos
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ANNOTATION: Norvelt, Pennsylvania; 1962. Twelve-year-old Jack Gantos is spending his summer grounded for various offenses and helping his elderly neighbor. As part of his duties, Jack must perform an unusual chore that involves the newly dead, molten wax, underage driving, and more.
Author: Eugene Yelchin
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ANNOTATION: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist. But when the police take his dad away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
Author: Thanhha Lai
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ANNOTATION: Ten-year-old H ̉writes poems to chronicle the life-changing year of 1975, when H,̉ her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Author: Clare Vanderpool
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ANNOTATION: Great Depression. Drifter Gideon Tucker sends his twelve-year-old daughter Abilene to stay with his friend Shady Howard, a saloon-owner-turned-pastor, in Manifest, Kansas, where Gideon grew up. Abilene discovers a cigar box full of papers and odds and ends that lead her to long-held secrets.
Author: Joyce Sidman
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ANNOTATION: Twelve poems invite readers to the cool breezes of the nighttime forest to learn about the moon, mushrooms, trees, raccoons, snails, porcupines, crickets, moths, owls, spiders, efts (young newts), and bats. Natural history facts accompany each poem.
Author: Margi Preus
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ANNOTATION: 1841. Marooned on a remote island and near starvation, fourteen-year-old Manjiro and four fishing companions are rescued by an American whaling ship. Manjiro joins the crew and is the first Japanese man to come to America. Still, he dreams of going home to be a samurai.
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
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ANNOTATION: Oakland, California; 1968. Eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonetta and Fern arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their poet mother Cecile, who abandoned them years ago. Cecile resents their presence–and sends them to a Black Panther summer camp.
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
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ANNOTATION: In 1935, when money is scarce during the Great Depression, ten-year-old Turtle goes to Key West, Florida, to live with relatives she's never met. Her adventures with her cousins involve a treasure map, a hurricane, and an ornery grandmother.
Author: Rebecca Stead
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ANNOTATION: New York City, 1979. Twelve-year-old Miranda helps her mother prepare to be on a television game show. Meanwhile Miranda tries to understand why her best friend Sal doesn't want to hang out anymore–and why someone is sending Miranda tiny notes from the future.
Author: Phillip Hoose
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ANNOTATION: Uses interviews to provide a firsthand account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin’s arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white woman in 1955 Alabama. Explains the era’s racial segregation policy and the consequences of Claudette’s demand for her constitutional rights.
Author: Jacqueline Kelly
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ANNOTATION: Texas, 1899. Being the only girl in the middle of six brothers, it is deemed odd that eleven-year-old Calpurnia Virginia Tate (Callie Vee) does not prefer knitting socks and learning cookery with her mother to roaming outdoors with her naturalist grandfather.
Author: Rodman Philbrick
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ANNOTATION: After his evil uncle sells his brother Harold to be a soldier in the Civil War, twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, runs away from his home in Maine. Homer has extraordinary adventures en route to Gettysburg as he searches for Harold.
Author: Grace Lin
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ANNOTATION: Minli, an adventurous girl, lives in a poor Chinese village near Fruitless Mountain. Inspired by her father’s stories, Minli sets out to find the Old Man of the Moon to restore the mountain’s bounty. Along the way, Minli encounters magical creatures, including a helpful dragon.
Author: Hendrik Willem van Loon
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ANNOTATION: An account of man's history revealed through movements and ideas, from prehistoric times to the present. For junior and senior high readers.
Author: Bernard Marshall
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Author: Padraic Colum
ANNOTATION: The strange and wondrous adventures of Jason and his brave Argonauts, who sought the famous Golden Fleece. Interwoven with their adventures are the mythical tales of Orpheus, Atalanta, Theseus, and Pandora and her secret box.
Author: Charles Hawes
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Author: William Bowen
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Author: Cornelia Meigs
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