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Newbery Medal

Newbery Medal. The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.

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Newbery Medal

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  1. Newbery Medal

  2. The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.

  3. English publisher John Newbery (1713-1767) was the first person to create books just for children. One of his books was The History of Little Goody Two Shoes. http://www.readinglibraries.org.uk/services/local/newbery.htm Woodcut from Wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Little_Goody_Two-Shoes

  4. Crispin: The Cross of Lead By Avi

  5. England in the year 1377. Edward III (1327-1377 AD) is king. Britannia Encyclopedia http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon32.html

  6. England in the year 1377. He was fighting with Scotland, and he defeated the Scots at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333. JM Dent/Historybookshop.com http://www.phoenixpress.co.uk/articles/people/monarchs/edward-3-eng-pp.asp

  7. England in the year 1377. Castles and cathedrals

  8. England in the year 1377. Castles and cathedrals

  9. England in the year 1377. Serfs: Village Life

  10. Crispin: The Cross of Lead By Avi 2003 Newbery Medal

  11. Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

  12. She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Looking at the bright, fuzzy picture in the magazine, she thought, Something like that. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found one. Hoping it wasn't too late, she thought the word soon.

  13. Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins 2006 Newbery Medal Winner

  14. "All was not right" in the summer of 1793 in the city of Philadelphia.

  15. No one noticed that the church bells were tolling more often than usual to announce one death, and then another. They rang for Dr. Hugh Hodge's little daughter, for Peter Aston, for John Weyman, for Mary Shewell, and for a boy named McNair. No one knew that a killer was already moving through their streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way. Dr. Benjamin Rush Tuomi Forrest, “Clean Green Machine: Philadelphia’s Fairmount Water Works. 1800-1860. University of Virginia. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/forrest/WW/home.html. Accessed December 18, 2006.

  16. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy 2004 Newbery Honor Book

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