Annal:2000 Newbery Medal
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Newbery Medal in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2002 YRCA-Junior winner
- 2000 CS King-Author winner
- 2000 Newbery winner
- 1999 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 36.52
It’s 1936 Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy, but Bud’s got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase full of special things; 2. He’s the author of "Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself"; 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his band of renown, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression. Bud is sure those posters will lead him to his father.
- 2000 Newbery honor
- Score: 6.5
When twelve-year-old Willa Jo climbs onto the roof at Aunt Patty’s house to see the sunrise, she never expects the conflicted feelings she’s had for three weeks to crystallize into a stubbornness that will keep her there all day. But once she’s up there, Willa Jo can’t seem to come down. Coming down means having to explain herself. And how can she explain?
After Baby died, Little Sister stopped talking. Then Aunt Patty took the girls away from Mom to give her time to pull herself together. Aunt Patty has a million rules about everything, and she seems to have…
- 2000 Newbery honor
- 2002 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 10.5
She may be a miracle, but she’s no proper young lady!
It isn’t easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it’s particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just can’t seem to abide her family’s insistence that she behave like a Proper Young Lady. Not when there’s fishing to be done, sheep to be herded, and real live murderers to be captured! May is sure she could manage better if only there were at least one other girl living along the banks…
- 2000 Newbery honor
- Score: 6.5
In a striking debut, Tomie dePaola finds just the right voice for his first chapter book about his adventures during the year the family built their house at 26 Fairmount Avenue.
It all began when the “Big Hurricane of 1938” roared into town…then his first day of school took an unexpected turn…so did Mr. Disney’s Snow White, the movie everyone had been waiting to see. These are only a few of the stories that will have readers racing from one episode to the next. Tomie fans, young and old, will be delighted to find favorite characters from his picture books,…
