January+23,+2008

=NEWBERY AWARD WINNERS=


 * 1) What year was the Newbery medal first awarded? (//1922//)
 * 2) This book is about a 13-year-old Inuit girl who has to decide between an arranged marriage and running away. She decides to leave and cross the tundra on her way to visit her pen pal in San Francisco. What is the title of the book? (//Julie of the Wolves// by Jean Craighead George)
 * 3) What is the title of this year’s Newbery Award? Amazon has it in stock, our library will have it soon!
 * 4) On a trip from Ohio to Idaho, 13-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle tells her grandparents the story of Phoebe Winterbottom. The book is about both Phoebe's story and Salamanca's own story. Which book is it? (//Walk Two moons// by Sharon Creech)
 * 5) Name the title of the book that starts with the following line:"//When animal droppings and garbage and spoiled straw are piled up in a great heap, the rotting and moiling give forth heat." (The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman)//
 * 6) It is 1943 Copenhagen and the Nazis are coming. Ellen Rosen moves in with her best friend Annemarie Johansen's family and pretends to be part of their family. Annemarie must show great courage to protect her friend. Which book am I? (//Number the Stars// by Lois Lowry)
 * 7) Claudia wanted to run away from home. She planned it carefully. She chose her brother Jamie to come with her because he was quiet and since he saved all his money he was 'rich.' They ran away and lived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Which book is it? //(From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler// by E.L. Koningsburg)
 * 8) What book stars with the following line: //It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. (The Giver by Lois Lowry)//
 * 9) Will Stanton is the last of the Old Ones. He has come to Wales to recuperate from a serious illness. He meets Bran and Bran's dog Cafall. His task is the wake the six sleepers with the lost golden harp. Which book is it? (//The Grey King// by Susan Cooper)
 * 10) Noah, Nadi, Ethan and Julian were chosen by Mrs. Olinski to be on her 6th grade Academic Bowl team. They win the 6th grade Academic Bowl at Epiphany Middle School and then they go on to beat the 7th and 8th grade teams as well. Which book is it? (//The View from Saturday// by E. L. Koningsburg)
 * 11) On June 22, 1921, Frederic G. Melcher proposed the award to the American Library Association meeting of the Children's Librarians' Section. He suggested that it be named for a well-known man, John Newberry. What was John Newberry’s profession? (//A bookseller//)
 * 12) Tree-ear, is an important character in the Newberry Award winning book by Linda Sue Park. Name the title of that book. (//A Single Shard//)
 * 13) This fortunate girl, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. This book is the winner of the 2007 Newberry Award. Name the book. (//The Higher Power of Lucky//).
 * 14) In this Newberry Award winner, a single spool of thread thought up by the author, Kate DiCamillo, became a key strength of the main character. It is key also in the title. What three other key items are included in The Tale of Despereaux? (//A mouse, a princess, some soup//)
 * 15) One of the most difficult challenges in life is missing someone so much that you can’t bear it. In Cynthia Rylant’s award winner, who did the old Uncle Ob miss so much? This person’s name is also included in the title. (//Missing May//)
 * 16) The 2006 Newbery Medal winner written by **Lynne Rae Perkins** follows the lives of four 14-year-olds in a small town, each at their own crossroads. This group of young teens explores new thoughts and feelings in their quest to find the meaning of life and love. Name the book. (//Criss Cross**)**//
 * 17) //If you have read this Newberry winner from 2005, this book written by Cynthia Kadohata would have taught you how to say the word ‘glittering’ in Japanese since// two sisters lie on their backs, watching the stars and repeating the Japanese word for "glittering". (//Kira-kira//)
 * 18) It is a place that once held "the largest lake in Texas," but today it is only a scorching desert wasteland…..is a well-known line from this excellent 1999 Newbery Award Winner. Name the author and title of this book. (//Holes//—Louis Sacher)
 * 19) Anastasia Krupnik, Anastasia Again!, Anastasia at Your Service……books by a celebrated Newberry winner….but who? (//Lois Lowrey//)
 * 20) This book is of a tale set in the late 19th century. It is about a widowed Midwestern farmer with two children. The farmer advertises for a wife. When she arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. It won the 1986 Newberry Award. (//Sarah// //Plain// //and Tall//).