A Gathering Of Days
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
FIC
year: 1990
copies: 44
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: diaries, newbery medal [X], new hampshire, newbery, farm life, family life [X], historical fiction
M. C. Higgins, The Great
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 77
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: family life [X], african americans, coming of age, mountain life, ohio, mining, afro-americans, blacks, newbery medal [X], families
Dicey's Song
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: brothers and sisters, family life [X], siblings, newbery medal [X], grandmothers, family, families
Sounder
His wife and children were starving, so the black sharecropper stole a ham to feed them.
FIC
year: 4519
copies: 272
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: dogs, poverty, african americans, family life [X], large type books, families, audiobooks, newbery medal [X], family, children's audiobooks, compact discs, closed caption video recordings, great depression, 1929-1939, television adaptations, sharecroppers, dvds, pets, animals, animal films, television adaptations, made for tv movies, dvd-video discs
Pictures Of Hollis Woods
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 272
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: family, old age, foster home care, artists, orphans, new york (state), family life [X], large type books, art, painting, drawing, families, audiobooks, paintings, drawings, newbery award, newbery medal [X], reading counts!
Ginger Pye
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 80
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: dogs, brothers and sisters, newbery medal [X], large type books, siblings, family life [X]
Up A Road Slowly
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: orphans, family life [X], newbery medal [X], girls, teenagers, aunts, coming of age, family, adolescence, domestic fiction, teenage girls, families, korean language materials, korean language, bildungsromans, bildungsromans
Sarah, Plain And Tall
Caleb and Anna, captivated by the mail-order bride their father has invited to come live with them in their prairie home, hope that she will stay.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 578
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: stepmothers, frontier and pioneer life, newbery medal [X], mail order brides, family, west (u.s.), west (united states), large type books, videotapes, love stories, historical fiction, family life [X], witting family (fictitious characters), witting family (fictional characters), large print books