Reading Challenges for Maw Books

The goal: to read all the Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books. Books I’ve read are bolded.  Books I own are marked with a astrix.  Click on a link to be taken to my full review.

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medievel Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

*The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan

Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

*Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott

*Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights” by Russell Freedman

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

*The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

*Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)

A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath

Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson

*A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck

*Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer

*Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos

*The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

*Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis

*Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

*Holes by Louis Sachar

*A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

*Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

*Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

*Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff

*Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

*The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

*A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer

Moorchild by Eloise McGraw

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

*Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White

*The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman

What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman

*The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

*Yolonda’s Genius by Carol Fenner

The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

*Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

*Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly

Dragon’s Gate by Laurence Yep

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

*Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

What Hearts by Bruce Brooks

The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

*Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle

Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples

The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

*Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton

Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer

*Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

*The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

*A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant

*On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

*Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg

Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes

The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks

One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt

Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky

The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

Doctor DeSoto by William Steig

Graven Images by Paul Fleischman

*Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

*Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

*Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

The Fledgling by Jane Langton

A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

*The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

*The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

*Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary

Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

*Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Abel’s Island by William Steig

A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis

Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin

*My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

*The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel

The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss

The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

*Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

Incident At Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert

The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin

Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles

Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

*The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt

Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell

*Sounder by William H. Armstrong

Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor

The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore

*Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

To Be a Slave by Julius Lester

When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

*From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg

The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell

The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer

*The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell

Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

*The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

*Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

*Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North

The Loner by Ester Wier

*A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.

Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

*The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis

The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz

*Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell (Houghton)

America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson

Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer

*The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

*My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

*The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson

Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong

Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay

The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz

Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright

The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson

Tom Paine, Freedom’s Apostle by Leo Gurko

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong

Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson

The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads

Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist

Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

*The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh

Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

…And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

*All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop

Shadrach by Meindert Dejong

Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong

Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson

Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

*Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh

Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

*Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity

Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling

The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff

The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer

The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt

Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton

Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson

The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

*The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill

The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz

Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery

George Washington by Genevieve Foster

Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Seabird by Holling C. Holling

*Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin

My Father’s Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett

Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois

Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop

Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger

The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman

The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes

Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff

The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell

The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry

The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means

Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston

New Found World by Katherine Shippen

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh

Abraham Lincoln’s World by Genevieve Foster

Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fog Magic by Julia Sauer

*Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes

Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

*Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

*The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes

Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski

Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

*Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

*Blue Willow by Doris Gates

Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls

Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

*Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

Nino by Valenti Angelo

*Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater

Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford

Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton

Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

The White Stag by Kate Seredy

Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman

Bright Island by Mabel Robinson

*On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

*Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski

Whistler’s Van by Idwal Jones

The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans

Winterbound by Margery Bianco

The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes

Audubon by Constance Rourke

*Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong

*The Good Master by Kate Seredy

Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

Dobry by Monica Shannon

Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger

Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke

Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum

Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker

Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster

ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág

Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best)

New Land by Sarah Schmidt

Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum

Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes

Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis

Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs

The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift

Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop

Calico Bush by Rachel Field

Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens

Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery

Jane’s Island by Marjorie Allee

Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Floating Island by Anne Parrish

The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus

Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard

Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams

Spice and the Devil’s Cave by Agnes Hewes

Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best

Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton

Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller

Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely

The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella

Vaino by Julia Davis Adams

Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág

The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock

Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs

Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon

Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young

Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger

Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore

The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

The Great Quest by Charles Hawes

Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall

The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen

The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs