Newbery Honor Books

In 1558 while imprisoned at Elwenwood Hall, a remote castle in northern England, teenaged Kate Sutton finds herself involved in a series of mysterious events that eventually bring her to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.

On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.

A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.

Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure. When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away--home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the...

Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult.

A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.

A compilation of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early 20th century.

In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.

A 1967 Newbery Honor Book. While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.