 | Sarah Bishop (Point) by Scott O'dell
Buy used from: $0.01 Nonsensical and not very historical fiction
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 | Caddie Woodlawn (Fiction) by Carol Ryrie Brink
Buy used from: $0.01 Not the only Newberry winner that's a dud
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 | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan W. Blos
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another Newberry winner, pretty unintelligible and boring
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 | The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.36 Not bad, but nowhere near as good as the hype suggests
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 | Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books) by Virginia Hamilton
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 Wow, a novel with all the excitement of a textbook!
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 | Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of "Little Women" by Cornelia Meigs
Buy used from: $0.01 Just read Little Women & skip this overwrought Newberry winner
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 | The Pirate's Son (Point Signature) by Geraldine McCaughrean
Buy used from: $0.01 Silly, implausible and kinda dumb
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 | Julie by Jean Craighead George
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Rambling, plotless attempt to cash in on Julie of the Wolves
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 | River Thunder by Will Hobbs
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 Monotonous and meaningless if you haven't read Downriver
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 | The Grey King (The Dark is Rising Sequence) by Susan Cooper
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Horrendously bad example of fantasy and (of course) a Newberry Winner
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 | The House of Dies Drear (Dies Drear Chronicle) by Virginia Hamilton
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Silly & witless mystery
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 | The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Buy used from: $0.01 Zzzzzz
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 | Seek by Paul Fleischman
Buy used from: $0.01 Fleischman's a good writer, but he stretches too far with this experiment
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 | A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $0.01 Double Zzzzzz
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