Annal:1999 Newbery Medal
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Newbery Medal in the year 1999. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2001 YRCA-Junior winner
- 1999 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 1999 Newbery winner
- 1998 NBA–Youth winner
- 1998 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
- Score: 46.51
A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment, by the author of There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom.
Stanley Yelnats’s family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake—it has been dry for over a hundred years—and it’s hardly a camp. As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but she…
A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
- 1999 Newbery honor
- 1998 NBA–Youth finalist
- 2001 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 16.49
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice—two city slickers from Chicago—make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel’s seemingly sleepy Illinois town?
August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn’t resting easy.
August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back.
August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry—all in one day.
And there’s more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma’s—each one…
