Annal:2002 Newbery Medal
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Results of the Newbery Medal in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2002 Newbery winner
- 2004 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- Score: 14.52
Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch”ulp”o, a potters” village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter”s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated — until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min”s irascible temper, and his own ignorance. But Tree-ear is determined to prove himself — even if it means taking a long, solitary journey on…
- 2002 Newbery honor
- 2001 Horn Book-fiction honor
- 2004 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 16.52
By the author of The Trolls, a National Book Award Finalist.
My name is Primrose Squarp. I am eleven years old. I have hair the color of carrots in apricot glaze (recipe to follow), skin fair and clear where it isn’t freckled, and eyes like summer storms.
Readers will know right from the start that the narrator of Everything on a Waffle is going to tell her story straight and pull no punches. Primrose’s parents have been lost at sea, but she believes without an iota of doubt that they are still alive, somewhere. She moves in with her Uncle…
Carver: A Life in Poems
- 2001 Horn Book-fiction winner
- 2002 Newbery honor
- 2001 NBA–Youth finalist
- Score: 22.51
This collection of poems assembled by award-winning writer Marilyn Nelson provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver. Born in 1864 and raised by white slave owners, Carver left home in search of an education and eventually earned a master’s degree in agriculture. In 1896, he was invited by Booker T. Washington to head the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute. There he conducted innovative research to find uses for crops such as…
