Reading Challenges for Maw Books

 The goal: to read all the Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books. Books I’ve read are bolded. 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
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
WinnerSounder 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
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