Newbery Medal
John Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal winner and honorees for 2008 have been announced!. The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It’s awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Winner
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz.
Published by Candlewick
This book features 22 connected vignettes written by Ms. Schlitz to be performed by students at the school where she is the librarian. A series of monologues and dialogues offers first-person character sketches that introduce the reader to life in medieval times.
Honor books
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Published by Scholastic/Scholastic Press
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. Things change when a former slave steals money from Elijah’s friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Elijah chases after the thief to America, and discovers for himself the horrors of the life his parents ran away from.
Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Pubished by Clarion
A humorous novel about an American teenage boy’s adventures during the 1967-1968 school year.
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Published by Putnam/GP Putnam’s Sons
Set in 1971, the novel uses as a backdrop the music and events surrounding the rising opposition to the Vietnam War. The author raises questions about God, racial segregation and issues surrounding the hearing-impaired with a light touch.
The Newbery Medal winner and honorees for 2008 have been announced!. The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It’s awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Winner
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz.
This book features 22 connected vignettes written by Ms. Schlitz to be performed by students at the school where she is the librarian. A series of monologues and dialogues offers first-person character sketches that introduce the reader to life in medieval times.
Honor books
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Published by Scholastic/Scholastic Press
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. Things change when a former slave steals money from Elijah’s friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Elijah chases after the thief to America, and discovers for himself the horrors of the life his parents ran away from.
Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
A humorous novel about an American teenage boy’s adventures during the 1967-1968 school year.
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Published by Putnam/GP Putnam’s Sons
Set in 1971, the novel uses as a backdrop the music and events surrounding the rising opposition to the Vietnam War. The author raises questions about God, racial segregation and issues surrounding the hearing-impaired with a light touch.
