Newbery, Caldecott, and Other Award-Winning Books
Sonlight is proud of the many titles that we include in our curriculum that have won the Newbery or Caldecott awards, or other literary awards . . . there are over 100 of them!
The Newbery Medal is awarded each year to that one book that the judges believe is the very finest in American literature for young people. The Newbery Honor may be awarded to as many American-authored children's books each year as the judges believe deserve special recognition.
The Association for Library Service to Children annually awards the Caldecott Medal to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The award was named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott.
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Item #GR03
A heartwarming story about the son of a traveling minstrel who is separated from his father and forced to live by his wits and music.
And Fourteen More
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Item #FA65
Award-winning collection of poems presents everyday objects in a thought-provoking new light.
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Item #4R62
The heartwarming story of a kindly dog's courage in the face of misunderstanding and false accusation. A story you won't want to put down.
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Item #130-16
Born the son of an African king, Amos Fortune was captured by slave traders in 1725, brought to America and sold at auction.
(with cd and workbook)
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Item #CH06
33 songs teach the names and locations of the continents, oceans, planets, 225 countries, and the states and provinces of Canada and the U.S.
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Item #HA10
The exciting story of a 16-year-old boy who is determined to conquer the last unconquered summit in the Alps — the very mountain on which his father died fifteen years before.
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Item #EA05
The adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters in the Wild West frontiers of Wisconsin in the late 1800s.
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Item #DA10
Left an orphan shortly after her family arrives in the New World, young Marguerite is "Bound-out" for six years to serve the Sargent family in exchange for food, shelter and clothing.
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Item #FR03
A legendary adventure story of how Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of Hibueru, a Polynesian people, conquers his fear of the sea and proves he isn't a coward.
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Item #DA06
Fascinating true story of the poor apprentice who, shortly after the American Revolution, transformed navigation from an art to a precise science.
A Classic Tale
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Item #BA01
White's heartwarming classic about the friendship between a little girl, a selfless spider and "the world's greatest pig."
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Item #320-25
Multiple award-winner. A stunning tale of cultural pressures felt by a Cambodian girl who finds herself a refugee in late 20th Century United States.
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Item #FH04
Amazing true story of how one man's diplomacy and cultural sensitivity opened the doors of a previously impermeable culture.
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Item #FA66
Momo, a young Tibetan girl, chases the man who stole her Lhasa terrier--from high in the Himalayas to the Bengal plains and the city of Calcutta.
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Item #130-28
An astonishing story about growing up, about love and disappointment.
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Item #120-19
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nev...
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Item #2R03
Frog and Toad are back with more silly adventures.
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Item #EA14
Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home . . . and find themselves caught in a mystery that makes headlines. Enjoyable.
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Item #ER12
Two children discover the remains of a lake long since dried up and forgotten, the ruins of once-elegant homes that stood along its shore . . . and two fascinating old people who remember the glory ye...
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Item #HR08
National Book Award. Married and promptly widowed at 13, Koly finds herself in the grim position of being cast out by a society that has no place for girls like her. Through friends and her skills, Ko...
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Item #GA07
Juan de Pareja is slave to the great artist Velazquez. De Pareja learns to paint in secret and ends up having some of his paintings hung in art museums. An engaging story based on real people.
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Item #ER10
In 1947, a Chinese girl comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to feel at home and to make friends.
The Story of Mary Jemison
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Item #130-46
Delightful Newbery Honor story of what happened to a twelve year old white girl who was captured by Seneca Indians in 1758.
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Item #430-40
Louise knows that she should be proud of her beautiful twin Caroline. But she is convinced that, ever since they were born, Caroline has done nothing but take from her: their parents' love, Louise's h...
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Item #DA04
A young apprentice silversmith is caught up in the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution.
A South African Story
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Item #FA57
Touching story of a young girl and her brother who set out to find their mother "somewhere" in the city of Johannesburg.
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Item #DA09
The true story of a young boy who trained the first all-American (but now world-famous) Morgan horse.
The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
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Item #FR15
A winning story of an Arabian horse from North Africa and his adventures in France and England.
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Item #FR19
A touching story about a Chinese boy who fails his fishing village's traditional test of manhood. Will he ever find a place in society considering his fear of the sea?
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Item #EH02
The only biography that has ever received the Newbery Medal. Beautifully written text combined with photos bring Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War President, very much to life.
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Item #130-52
After his parents die, Jeffrey Magee awes his friends with unbelievable feats.
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Item #EA07
Dad has returned from World War II a changed man: withdrawn, touchy, unable to work. The family moves back to the family farm where dad gets the healing he needs.
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Item #4R45
Fictional account of a true story about an "uncatchable" mare named Phantom and her colt, Misty. Engaging.
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Item #EA11
A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
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Item #BA10
A young farm boy and his sheep grow up together. Touching, beautifully crafted, thought-provoking.
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Item #BA08
A classic, absolutely impossible tall tale.
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Item #230-44
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse, must move her family or face death. Unfortunately, her son Timothy is ill and can't be moved. She seeks help from the brilliant rats of NIMH. Their solution is worth the...
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Item #AA09
A delightful story about a boy who rescues a sweet young dragon from her enemies through the judicious use of the unlikely items he has stored in his knapsack.
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Item #HA13
The story of a Danish family's role in subverting their Nazi oppressor's evil designs. A gripping, moving story.
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Item #ER06
The touching Newbery Honor story about a boy and the dog he loves. Set during frontier days in the Texas hill country.
A Play in Three Acts
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Item #430-55
Pulitzer Prize. One of the most popular American dramas of all time, Our Town recalls three time periods in the life of residents of a small Connecticut town. It calls us to focus on the "little thing...
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Item #130-61
Billie Jo, a 14-year-old girl caught in the Oklahoma dust storms of the 1930s, reveals the grim realities of a life lived in that time and place.
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Item #CA11
The mountainous island of Capri has a mystery and it takes the innkeeper's son, Michele, and three foreigners to get to the bottom of it.
A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution...
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Item #320-70
Multiple award-winner. A devastating, first-person story of the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao in the late '60s.
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Item #EA06
Award winner set in the post-Civil War South.
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Item #DR07
Award-winning story of a frontier American widower who advertises for a wife . . . and gets Sarah.
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Item #GR04
Son of the greatest bullfighter in Spain, Manolo Olivar wonders whether he should go along with the townspeople's plans for him to follow in his father's footsteps. At the moment of truth, he makes hi...
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Item #ER18
Beautifully written Newbery Honor story of a teen aged girl who is confronted by the challenges of life as a female member of the Navaho nation in the mid-1860s. Poignant and thought-provoking.
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Item #CA05
A proud, poor family overcomes nature and feuding neighbors to become strawberry farmers.
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Item #DA12
Eighteen-year-old Chris spends a winter with his grandfather in a cabin in Minnesota.
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Item #DR11
Jonathan goes to get "the biggest pot you ever laid eyes on" — on the other side of Hemlock Mountain.
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Item #GR08
When Halima and Atiyah were babies, they were pledged in marriage. Now Atiyah has been sent away, a political pawn in a war between Beduin tribes in 1302.
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Item #FR05
A Japanese boy must face life after escaping a tidal wave that destroys his family and village.
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Item #GR02
Set in Galilee in the time of Jesus, this is the dramatic story of a young Jewish rebel who is won over by the gentle teachings of Jesus. A wonderful story.
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Item #DR09
Anne is lonely when her family moves to the Pennsylvania frontier . . . until a special evening when a stranger comes to dinner.
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Item #FR06
A little cat and his master, a compassionate artist, bring about a special Buddhist miracle. Written from a Buddhist perspective.
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Item #DR08
Eight-year old Sarah journeys into the wilderness with her father--and ends up alone!
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Item #CA14
Chester, a cricket from Connecticut, moves into the Bellinis' Newspaper Stand in New York City.
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Item #CA03
Newbery Medal-winning story of the crippled son of a medieval lord.
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Item #230-28
A few citizens of an imaginary village dare to question some long-held but false beliefs in the community...and are ostracized as a result. Thought-provoking but easy to read.
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Item #GA01
An orphan in ancient Egypt desires nothing more than to follow in his father's footsteps as a goldsmith but is forced into a life that he despises. A story of suspense and action in which Egyptian l...
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Item #HR03
Jancsi, a Hungarian boy in the early 1900s, is overjoyed that his cousin is coming to spend the summer at his father's ranch on the Hungarian plains. Their summer proves more adventurous than he had h...
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Item #430-37
Nobel Prize. "One of the greatest and most socially significant novels of the twentieth century."
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Item #330-34
A foster girl learns what true love is and what it means to belong. Riveting. A book you'll read over and over.
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Item #EA10
Engrossing story about the first—and largest—Ferris Wheel ever built. Told by one of the workers who built it.
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Item #FA53
A Chinese boy is separated from his family and is "adopted" by sixty American airmen.
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Item #AA15
Two girls repent of "making fun" of the poor girl in their class who says she has a hundred dresses.
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Item #HR10
Awaiting trial for withholding gold from the king, 17-year-old cartographer Esteban recalls his adventures with a band of ruthless conquistadors. Filled with unforgettable characters, action, romance,...
Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam
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Item #FA64
Multiple award-winner. The loving memories of the author's childhood in a Vietnamese hamlet.
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Item #AA11
Ronnie loves living in the lighthouse, but the days go by, and the keeper doesn't return. A simple but pleasurable Christmas story for all ages.
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Item #FA52
Jiro, son of a starving puppet maker in 18th Century Japan, runs away from home to apprentice himself to the master of the Hanaza puppet theater ... and finds himself in the midst of a Robin Hood intr...
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Item #DR02
A ten-year-old boy saves his family from raiding Indians during the French and Indian war.
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Item #330-49
Jerome Foxworthy tells the story of his friend, a white boy named Bix. Basketball--played straight or with fakes--becomes an allegory for life. Engrossing. Brilliantly written.
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Item #ER01
A realistic story of a Tennessee mountain boy who, during the Civil War, comes to realize that war is terrible no matter where one's sympathies lie.
A True Story of Courage, Survival,...
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Item #320-75
The author writes a true-to-life fictionalized autobiography of his mother--a young Armenian girl in Turkey during the "other" 20th century Holocaust that was prelude to Stalin, Hitler, and others.
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Item #GA09
Multiple award winner. The riddle of the Mona Lisa is solved in a most ingenious reconstruction of the middle years of Leonardo da Vinci, the quintessential Renaissance Man.
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Item #DR15
Caldecott Honor Book recounts the story of the Pilgrims from the time they left England on the Mayflower through the first Thanksgiving celebration.
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Item #CA02
An inventive scientist lands on Krakatoa only days before the volcano blows.
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Item #GA02
The only mystery story ever to win the Newbery Medal!
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Item #BA04
Touching classic about citizens of a Dutch town who come to know each other as they "bring back the storks.
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Item #4R53
A prince who has to learn the hard way what makes for true character.
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Item #DA03
A girl raised in luxury in the Caribbean struggles to adjust to Puritan New England.
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Item #ER09
Newbery Medal winner about a mid-American farm family in the early 20th century. Charming.
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Item #330-64
A deep, exquisitely-textured story, full of symbolism, about a 13-year-old girl, her parents and grandparents, and about relationships, living and dying. A story that will call forth tears.
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Item #FA62
An award winning story of a young boy who lived in China during the perilous 1920s.
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