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The Newbery Medal was established on June 22, 1921, at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA). [6] Proposed by Publishers Weekly editor Frederic G. Melcher, the proposal was well received by the children's librarians present and then approved by the ALA Executive Board. [7] The award was administered by the ALA from the ...
One Crazy Summer. 9780060760885 (trade bdg.) One Crazy Summer is a historical fiction novel by American author Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad in 2010. The novel is about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, three sisters, visiting their mother in Oakland, California, during the summer of 1968. [2]
Selected awards and honors. Newbery Honor Awards. 2000 for Our Only May Amelia; 2007 for Penny from Heaven; 2011 for Turtle in Paradise; 2011 Golden Kite Award for Turtle in Paradise; 2013 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers for Babymouse for President; 2014 California Book Awards Gold Medal Juvenile winner for The Fourteenth ...
These writers have won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" (one book). For articles on winning books see Category:Newbery Medal–winning works .
Turtle in Paradise is a 2010 children's novel written by Jennifer L. Holm. [1] The book is a 2011 Newbery Honor Book and also won the Golden Kite Award. The main character, Turtle, is eleven years old and lives in Key West, Florida during the Great Depression. [citation needed] The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 is also mentioned in this book.
A Wrinkle in Time. A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, [2] the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. [3] [a] The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles ...
Shiloh is a Newbery Medal -winning children's novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published in 1991. The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a quartet about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog. Naylor decided to write Shiloh after an emotionally taxing experience in West Virginia where she encountered an abused dog.
Gaiman has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.