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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