Annal:1995 Newbery Medal
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Results of the Newbery Medal in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1995 Newbery winner
- Score: 10.45
Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true.
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the “Indian-ness in her blood,” travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a “potential lunatic,” and whose mother disappeared.
Beneath Phoebe’s stories Salamanca’s own story and that of her mother, who left on April morning for Idaho, promising to return before the tulips bloomed. Sal’s mother has not, however, returned, and the trip to Idaho takes on a growing urgency as Salamanca hopes to get to Idaho in time for her mother’s birthday and bring her back, despite her father’s warning that she is fishing in the air.
This richly layered novel is in turn funny, mysterious, and touching. Sharon Creech’s original voice tells a story like no other, one that readers will not soon forget.
- 1995 Newbery honor
- 1994 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 12.45
The year is 2194, and Tendai, his brother, and his sister—the children of Zimbabwei’s chief of security—have escaped from their father’s estate to explore the dangerous city of Harare.
- 1994 Golden Kite-fiction winner
- 1995 Newbery honor
- Score: 16.44
Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man—any rich man, no matter how awful.
But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call—by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.
Unfortunately, he is also the richest.
Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?
Deus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!
