Transcript Newbery Award Winners

Newbery Award Winners
2014
Newbery Award
©
• Named for a British
bookseller John
Newbery
• Given to a book
published previous
year -- since 1922
• Given to the author of
the most
“distinguished”
contribution to
children’s literature
• Resident US
• Up to/including age 14
Newbery Winner
A girl named Flora and a squirrel
named Ulysses, whose life was
saved by Flora after he was
involved with an incident with a
vacuum cleaner, team up to use
his new superpowers to conquer
villains and protect the weak
Flory and Ulysses
By Kate DiCamillo
Also
Newbery winner of
Tale of Despereaux
and
Because of Winn Dixie
Honor book
Zach, Alice and Poppy, all
Friends from a Pennsylvania
Middle school who have long
Enjoyed acting out
adventures with dolls and
action figures, embark on a
real life quest to Ohio to
bury a doll made from the
ashes of a dead girl.
By Holly Black
Also author of
Spiderwick Chronicles
Honor book
In 1871 Wisconsin, 13 year old
Georgia sets out to find her
sister Agatha, presumed dead
when remains are found wearing
the dress she was last seen in,
and before the end of the year
gains fame as a sharpshooter and
a foiler of counterfeiters
By Amy Timberlake
Honor book
When an 11 year old boy takes
over a friend’s newspaper route
in July 1959, in Memphis, his
debilitating stutter makes for a
memorable month
By Vince Vawter
Honor book
Seven year old Billy Miller starts
second grade with a bump on his
head, and a lot of worries, but by
the end of the year he has
developed good relationships
with his teacher, his little sister,
and his parents and learned many
important lessons
By Kevin Henkes
Also
Newbery honor for
Olive’s Ocean
Schneider Family
award
Princess Matilda wants to live in
a cloister, writing all her life,
especially with her lame foot,
and wanting to escape from her
evil cousin, but her servant
Judith and her friend Parz would
rather be out dragon hunting, so
she joins the adventure
By Merrie Haskell
Also author of
Princess Curse
Coretta Scott King
award
After spending the Summer of 1968
with their mother and the Black
Panthers in San Francisco, the 3
sisters return to Brooklyn with a new
sense of independence, but their
father has a new girlfriend, and their
uncle has just come home from
Vietnam a changed man, and Big Ma
still expects Delphine to take care of
everything. Delphine writes to her
real mother who reminds her to PS
be eleven
By Rita Williams-Garcia
Newbery winner of
One Crazy Summer
Printz honor book
– Young Adult
By Clare Vanderpool
An Odyssey like
adventure of two boys
incredible adventure on
the Appalachian Trail
where they deal with
pirates, buried secrets
and extraordinary
encounters.
Also
Newbery winner of
Moon over Manifest