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The following list includes Newbery Award-winning books that are favorites among boys:

1. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (2008 Newbery Honor)  7th grade boy and his teacher meet after school in the 1960s.
2. Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (2005 Newbery Honor)  12 year old Moose Flanagan and family live on Alcatraz Island in 1935.
3. Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (2001 Newbery Honor)  Boy with ADHD spends the summer with his estranged Dad.
4. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (2000 Newbery Medal) 10 year old Bud searches for jazz musician father in 1930s Michigan.
5. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (1991 Newbery Medal)  Athletic orphan boy encounters racism and seeks a home.
6. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1988 Newbery Honor)  13 year old boy survives alone in Canadian wilderness after a plane crash.
7. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (1984 Newbery Honor)  12 year old boy learns about wilderness survival and Native American culture.
8. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier (1975 Newbery Honor)  Classic story of a family torn apart by the Revolutionary War.
9. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (1960 Newbery Honor)  Boy runs away from New York City apartment to live alone in the Catskill mountains.
10. Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman (1955 Newbery Medal)  16 year old boy attempts the Alpine climb that killed his father.

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Girls will love these recent and classic Newbery Award-winning books:

1. Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (2007 Newbery Honor)  16 year old orphan becomes Montana homesteader in 1918.
2. Rules by Cynthia Lord (2007 Newbery Honor)  12 year old big sister creates rules to deal with brother’s autism.
3. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (2001 Newbery Medal)  Mary Alice spends year of Great Depression with her grandmother in Illinois.
4. Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (1998 Newbery Honor)  Girl develops friendship with a refugee boy in the Rockaways during World War II.
5. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (1995 Newbery Medal)  13 year old Salamanca Tree Hiddle travels with grandparents to Idaho in search of missing mother.
6. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1990 Newbery Medal)  Brave girl helps best friend in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943.
7. Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (1983 Newbery Honor)  Fantasy book chronicles young girl warrior’s adventures in the desert.
8. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1977 Newbery Medal)  Nine year old Cassie faces segregation and bigotry in Deep South of the 1930s.
9. Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (1967 Newbery Medal)  Ten years in the life of a girl raised by her aunt after her mother’s death.
10. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (1959 Newbery Medal)  In 1687, headstrong teenager encounters witch hunt in Puritan New England colony.

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