Annal:1991 Newbery Medal
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Newbery Medal in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1993 YRCA-Junior winner
- 1991 Newbery winner
- 1990 Horn Book-fiction winner
- Score: 30.43
He wasn’t born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name.
And Maniac Magee became a legend.
Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park “frog” homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it.
But the thing Mania Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from the East Side and those from the West Side.
He was special all right, and this is his story, and it’s a…
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- 1991 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 1990 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 1991 Newbery honor
- Score: 26.41
The Seahawk looms against a darkening sky, black and sinister. Manned by an angry, motley crew at the mercy of a ruthless captain, the rat-infested ship reeks of squalor, despair … and mutiny! It is no place for the lone passenger, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, yet for her there is no turning back. At first a trapped and powerless young girl, Charlotte dares to become the center of a daring and deadly voyage that will challenge her courage, her loyalties, and her very will to survive!Alone on the brig Seahawk with a mutinous crew and a ruthless, mad captain,…
