1. Paperback Class Book Sets
Stonewall Tell Elementary Media Center
Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction
Newbery Award Winner Newbery Award Winner
Corretta Scott King Award Winner Corretta Scott King Award Winner
Ten -year-old Bud, a motherless boy Fourth-grader Peter Hatcher finds
The ordinary interactions and For months six-year-old Ruby
living in Flint, Michigan, during the his demanding two-year-old brother
everyday routines of the Watsons, Bridges must confront the hostility
Great Depression, escapes a bad an ever-increasing problem.
an African-American family living in of white parents when she (Rd. Lvl 3.8)
becomes the first African foster home and sets out in search of
Flint, Michigan, are drastically
American girl to integrate Frantz the man he believes to be his father--
changed after they go to visit
Grandma in Alabama in the summer Elementary School in New Orleans the renowned bandleader, H.E.
of 1963. (Rd. Lvl 5.0) in 1960. (Rd. Lvl 4.4) Calloway of Grand Rapids.
(Rd. Lvl 5.5)
Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction
Newbery Award Winner Newbery Award Winner
Harriet Tubman, known as the Moses of Two African-American girls living in In 1943, during the German
While living on a Vermont poor farm the North are proud of their family's occupation of Denmark, ten-year-
her people, escapes slavery, then risks during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his old Annemarie learns how to be
beautiful new Cadillac until they take
her life to bring other slaves to freedom identity and that of his mother and it on a visit to the South and brave and courageous when she
up the Underground Railroad. comes to understand how he arrived at encounter racial prejudice for the first helps shelter her Jewish friend from
this place. (Rd. Lvl 5.5) time. (Rd. Lvl 4.1) the Nazis. (Rd Lvl 4.9)
(Rd. Lvl 4.0)

2. Paperback Class Book Sets
Stonewall Tell Elementary Media Center
Realistic Fiction Adventure Historical Fiction Adventure
Newbery Award Newbery Award Winner
The kids in Room 207 take advantage of Little Willy hopes to pay the back When their father invites a mail-order
their teacher's good nature until she taxes on his grandfather's farm with the bride to come live with them in their Escaping from an unwanted
disappears and they are faced with a vile purse from a dog sled race he enters. prairie home, Caleb and Anna are marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo
substitute. (Rd. Lvl. 3.1) captivated by their new mother and girl gets lost on the Alaskan tundra
(Rd. Lvl 4.5) and is befriended by a wolf pack.
hope that she will stay.
(Rd. Lvl 3.4) (Rd. Lvl 5.6)
Realistic Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Adventure
Newbery Award Winner Newbery Award Winner Newbery Award Winner
1984 In his letters to his favorite author,
ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems An African-American family living in
in coping with his parents' divorce, A bratty prince and his whipping
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of the South during the 1930s is faced
being the new boy in school, and boy have many adventures when
his journey to freedom along the with prejudice and discrimination
generally finding his own place in the they inadvertently trade places after
Underground Railroad in 1857. which its children do not understand.
world. (Rd. Lvl. 5.0) becoming involved with dangerous
(Rd. Lvl. 3.5) (Rd. Lvl 6.9) outlaws. (Rd. Lvl 4.5)

3. Paperback Class Book Sets
Stonewall Tell Elementary Media Center
Realistic Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction
Newbery Honor Book Newbery Award
Left alone to guard the family's In the midst of a backyard campout,
wilderness home in eighteenth- five children find themselves
An eleven-year-old foster child tries transported back into the time of
to cope with her longings and fears century Maine, a boy is hard-
George Washington, where they
as she schemes against everyone pressed to survive until local begin to live out American history
who tries to be friendly. Indians teach him their skills. firsthand and learn the sober realities
(Rd. Lvl 4.9) of war.
(Rd. Lvl 3.1)
(Rd. Lvl 5.0)
Coretta Scott King Award Newbery Award Criteria
The Coretta Scott King Awards The Newbery Award is given
are presented annually by the annually by the American Library
American Library Association to Association to the author of the
honor African-American authors and most distinguished contribution to
illustrators who create outstanding American literature for children
books for children and young adults books. It is named for John
Newbery, an 18th century English
publisher of juvenile books.
The Newbery Honor is
awarded to worthy runners-up.