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WINNING TITLES
HONOR BOOKS
2008
J 812.6 SHLITZ
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Amy Schlitz
  • Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
  • Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2007
J FIC PATRON
The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron
  • Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
  • Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
  • Rules by Cynthia Lord
2006
YA FIC PERKINS
Criss Cross, by Lynne Rae Perkins
  • Whittington by Alan Armstrong
  • Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
  • Princess Academy by Shannon Hale 
  • Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

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2005
J FIC KUDOHAT
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
2004
J SF FIC DICAMIL
Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
  • Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
  • An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
2003
J FIC AVI
Crispin by Avi
  • The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
  • Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
  • A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
  • Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2002
J FIC PARK
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
  • Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
  • Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001
J FIC PECK
A Year Down Yonder 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

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2000
J FIC CURTIS
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
1999
J SF FIC SACHAR
Holes by Louis Sachar
  • A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
1998
J FIC HESSE
Out of The Dust by Karen Hesse
  • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  • Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1997
J FIC KONIGSB
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
1996
J FIC CUSHMAN
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

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1995
J FIC CREECH
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
  • Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
  • The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
1994
YA FIC LOWRY
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
1993
J FIC RYLANT
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
1992
J FIC NAYLOR
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
1991
J FIC SPINELL
Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

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1990
J FIC LOWRY
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
1989
J 811.54 FLEISCH
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
1988
J 92 LINCOLN FREEDMA
Lincoln: A Photobiography, by Russell Freedman
  • After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987
J FIC FLEISCH
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
1986
J FIC MACLACH
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
  • Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
  • Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

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1985
J SF FIC MCKINLE
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
1984
J FIC CLEARY
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
1983
J FIC VOIGT
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
1982
J 811 WILLARD
A Visit to William Blake's Inn, by Nancy Willard
  • Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
  • Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
1981
J FIC PATERSO
Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
  • The Fledgling by Jane Langton
  • A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

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1980
J FIC BLOS
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, by Joan W. Blos
  • The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
1979
J MYST FIC RASKIN
The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin

  • The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978
J FIC PATERSO
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
  • Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
  • Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
1977
J FIC TAYLOR
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
  • Abel's Island by William Steig
  • A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
1976
J SF FIC COOPER
The Grey King, by Susan Cooper
  • The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
  • Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

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1975
J FIC HAMILTO
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
1974
J FIC FOX
The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox

  • The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
1973
J FIC GEORGE
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
1972
J FIC OBR
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
  • The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1971
J FIC BYARS
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

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1970
J FIC ARMSTRO
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
1969
J SF FIC ALEXANDER
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
1968
J MYST FIC KONIGSB
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
1967
J FIC HUNT
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
1966
J FIC TREVINO
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

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1965
J FIC WOJCIEC
Shadow of a Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska
  • Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1964
J FIC NEVILLE
It's Like This, Cat, by Emily Neville
  • Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
  • The Loner by Ester Wier
1963
J SF FIC LENGLE
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
  • Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
  • Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
1962
J FIC SPEARE
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
1961
J FIC ODELL
Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell
  • 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)

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1960
J FIC KRUMGOL
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
1959
J FIC SPEARE
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
1958
J FIC KEITH
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
1957
NOT OWNED
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
1956
J FIC LATHAM
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

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1955
J FIC DEJONG
The Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong
  • Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
  • Banner In The Sky by James Ullman
1954
J FIC KRUMGOL
...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
1953
J FIC CLARK
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
1952
J FIC ESTES
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
1951
J 92 FORTUNE YATES
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

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1950
J FIC DE ANGE
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
1949
J FIC HENRY
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
1948
J FIC DU BOIS
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
1947
J FIC BAILEY
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
1946
J FIC LENSKI
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

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1945
J FIC LAWSON
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
1944
J FIC FORBES
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
1943
J FIC VINING
Adam of the Road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray
  • The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
  • Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt
1942
J FIC EDMONDS
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
1941
J FIC SPERRY
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 Hal

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1940
NOT OWNED
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 Wilder
  • Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader
1939
J FIC ENRIGHT
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
1938
J FIC SERED
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
1937
J FIC SAWYER
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
1936
J FIC BRINK
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
  • All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

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1935
J FIC SHANN
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
1934
J 92 ALCOTT MEIGS
Invincible Louisa, 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
1933
J FIC LEWIS
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
1932
NOT OWNED
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
1931
J FIC COATSWO
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

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1930
NOT OWNED
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 Young
  • Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
  • Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift
1929
J FIC KELLY
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
1928
NOT OWNED
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
1927
FIC JAMES (adult fiction room)
Smoky, the Cowhorse, by Will James
[None recorded]
1926
J FIC CHRISMA
Shen of the Sea, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
  • The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

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1925
J 398 FINGER
Tales from Silver Lands, by Charles Finger
  • Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
  • The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
1924
J FIC HAWES
The Dark Frigate, by Charles Hawes
[None recorded]
1923
J SF FIC LOFTING
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting
[None recorded]
1922
J 909 VAN LOO
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
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