Outstanding children’s books

I am currently reading The Blue Sword (one of the winners of the 1983 Newberry Honor):



Hay… Super ganda! :)

I wish I could find the prequel book entitled: The Hero and the Crown (winner of the 1985 Newberry Medal)

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Lately I'm more inclined to read (and collect) books that were awarded by the American Library Association (ALA) with the NEWBERRY MEDAL AND HONOR BOOK AWARD. I already have the following added to my small library:

1998 Honor Books: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
1997 Honor Books: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
1995 Honor Books: Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1990 Honor Books: The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)
1988 Honor Books: After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)
1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1983 Honor Books: The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

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For 2006 here are the winners of the said Award:

2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
Honor Books:
· Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House)
· Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
· Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
· Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

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hehe ;)