A Newbery Honor Collection: Four Classic John Newbery Honor Books: The Black Pearl / On My Honor / Catherine, Called Birdy / The Wednesday Wars - Brossura

O'Dell, Scott; Bauer, Marion Dane; Cushman, Karen; Schmidt, Gary D.

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ISBN 10: 0547851421 ISBN 13: 9780547851426

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

Riassunto

This lovely library of stellar Newbery Honor–winning novels features four favorite adventures: Scott O’Dell’sThe Black Pearl (1968), Marion Dane Bauer’s On My Honor (1987), Karen Cushman’sCatherine, Called Birdy (1995), and Gary D. Schmidt’s Wednesday Wars (2008). All four are the latest paperback editions with updated covers, and the set makes a wonderful gift for the voracious reader. Pair with the Newbery Collection boxed set!

Praise for The Black Pearl:
“Reverberates with . . . proud admiration of the courage of the human spirit.” –Publishers Weekly

Praise for On My Honor:
“A powerful, soul-stirring novel told simply and well.” –Booklist, starred review

Praise for Catherine, Called Birdy:
“Superb historical fiction.” –School Library Journal, starred review

Praise for The Wednesday Wars:
“Schmidt...makes the implausible believable and the everyday momentous...a gentle, hopeful, moving story.” –Booklist, starred review

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Informazioni sull'autore

Scott O'Dell was born in Los Angeles in 1898, wrote twenty-six books for children before his death at the age of ninety-one. Among his many literary awards were the Newbery Medal (forIsland of the Blue Dolphins), the Newbery Honor (for The Black Pearl), and the Hans Christian Anderson Award for his body of work, the highest international award given to an author of children's books.

Marion Dane Bauer is an award-winning author who also teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College. She lives with her partner, Ann Goddard, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Karen Cushman has had a lifelong interest in history and "wanted to know what ordinary life was like for ordinary young people in other times." Her research led to the writing ofCatherine, Called Birdy, a Newbery Honor book, and The Midwife's Apprentice,a Newbery Medal winner. She lives on Vashon Island, Washington. Visit her website atwww.karencushmanbooks.com

Gary Schmidt is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor forLizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and a Newbery Honor for The Wednesday Wars. He lives with his family on a one-hundred-fifty-year-old farm in Alto, Michigan, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, and feeds the wild cats that drop by.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0547851421
• ISBN 13: 9780547851426
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 692
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile