Showing 1–2 of 2 titles

• List: John Newbery Medal
• Genre: Historical Fiction
• Genre: Verse Novel

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  Inside Out & Back Again

  By Thanhha Lai

  Hà and her family flee war-torn Vietnam for the American South. In spare yet vivid verse, she chronicles her year-long struggle to find her place in a new and shifting world.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction, Verse Novel
  • John Newbery Medal 2012 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780061962783
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  Out of the Dust

  By Karen Hesse

  Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates how her mother dies after an accident with burning kerosene. Blaming both herself and her father, she is unable to express herself through her piano playing because of the burns that scar her hands. She leaves but quickly returns to her home “of dust” and she realizes how much a part of her it is.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction, Verse Novel
  • John Newbery Medal 1998 (Medal Winner)
  • Older
  • ISBN: (0-590-36080-9)