Sorry, guys, for the long wait. I was off for a couple of weeks, but here is the promised list of Newbery winners for you. These are some of the books I read in my junior high days and they all promise a lot of adventure.
First, let's start with an American Revolution book called Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes. I picked up this book after I saw the Walt Disney movie based on the book. Johnny was an apprentice silvesmith in Boston just before the start of the revolution against England. In a tragic accident his right hand is burned and horribly crippled. Though his career is over, he finds a new life among the American rebels and fights for a new country.
Two favorite books about the Middle Ages are Adam of the Road and A Door in the Wall. I
n Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray, young Adam travels the roads of medieval England searching for his missing minstrel father and his stolen dog, Nick. As you join Adam in his travels, you meet the various other travelers he mets - "rich merchants, pilgrims with cockle shells on their hats, farming folk driving pigs to the fair, noblemen with retinue, minstrels and priests, saints and thieves and honest country bodies." Somewhere among these people are the father and the dog he is searching for.
n Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray, young Adam travels the roads of medieval England searching for his missing minstrel father and his stolen dog, Nick. As you join Adam in his travels, you meet the various other travelers he mets - "rich merchants, pilgrims with cockle shells on their hats, farming folk driving pigs to the fair, noblemen with retinue, minstrels and priests, saints and thieves and honest country bodies." Somewhere among these people are the father and the dog he is searching for.
In A Door in the Wall, we meet Robin, son of a noble family. Young Robin is stricken with a fever that leaves him crippled. He is sent out to the country to avoid the plague in London and recover from his illness. When one of the towns where he is staying is beseiged, it will be Robin's courage that overcomes his handicap and sends him to bring help to the town.
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favorite adventure book from the Newbery winners is 21 Balloons by Willian Pene Du Bois. In 1883 Professor William Sherman is tired of teaching arithmetic at a school for boys, so he decides to fly a hot-air balloon across the Pacific Ocean. Three weeks later he is found clinging in the Atlantic Ocean to the wreck of a platform attached to twenty-one balloons. This book is the Professor's amazing story of his travels and his brief stop on a mysterious island with an incredible secret. Unfortunately the name of the island is Krakatoa which is really a volcano and 1883 is the year of its eruption.
favorite adventure book from the Newbery winners is 21 Balloons by Willian Pene Du Bois. In 1883 Professor William Sherman is tired of teaching arithmetic at a school for boys, so he decides to fly a hot-air balloon across the Pacific Ocean. Three weeks later he is found clinging in the Atlantic Ocean to the wreck of a platform attached to twenty-one balloons. This book is the Professor's amazing story of his travels and his brief stop on a mysterious island with an incredible secret. Unfortunately the name of the island is Krakatoa which is really a volcano and 1883 is the year of its eruption. There is still time this summer to read and enjoy one of these books. And Mrs. Warkentien and I are still accepting book reports for the Lakeview Summer Reading Program. The last date to turn in reports is September 2nd. So keep on reading!
