Carolyn W. Field Award

In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. (2009)

In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel. (2008)

What would you do if you lived in a community without a library, hospital, post office, or fire department? If you were Benjamin Franklin, you'd set up these organizations yourself. (2007)

The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that gave Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. (2006)

Rhyming text describes a great variety of hats worn by celebrities throughout history. (2005)

Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable%uFFFDNazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II%uFFFDand tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan. (2004)

The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there. (2004)

Emma's research on Erik the Red soon extends beyond the classroom. (2003)

Black Potatoes is the story of men, women, and children who searched empty fields for scraps of harvested vegetables and edible weeds to eat, who walked several miles each day to hard-labor jobs for meager wages and to reach soup kitchens. (2002)

In the post-Civil War South, a young African American girl is determined to prove that she can go to school just like her older brothers. (2001)

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. (2000)

In the early 1900s, two cousins leave their Russian shtetl with the rest of their family to come to America, hopeful that they will all pass the dreaded inspection at Ellis Island. (2000)

When Mordred learns the identity of his father, he struggles with feelings of hatred, but also fights the fate which determines that he kill the good and gracious king. (1999)

As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. (1998)

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (1997)

The widow McDowell and her seven-year-old son Thomas ask the gruff Jonathan Toomey, the best wood-carver in the valley, to carve the figures for a Christmas creche. (1996)

Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie. Includes recipe. (1995)

Present-day visitors describe what they see when they visit the pueblos where the Anasazi lived long ago. (1994)

An old man tells his grandchildren how he and a friend accidentally smashed the pumpkin his sister was growing and had to find a replacement. (1993)

In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself. (1992)

After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. (1991)

On a busy day at Long Pond, Box Turtle searches for food, basks in the sun, and escapes a raccoon. (1990)

Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. (1989)

Inspired by a poem by e.e. cummings, this is the story of a little tree that finds its own special place in the world as a much-loved Christmas tree. (1988)

On a visit to a remote European kingdom in 1872, a fearless sixteen-year-old orphan and her guardian research an ancient legend and become enmeshed in a dangerous rebellion. (1987)

Explains the needs of toddlers faced with a new baby in the family and some of the changes and disruptions the baby can cause in the life of the older brother or sister. (1986)

Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. (1985)

Illustrations accompany couplets describing things that go together naturally, such as "Sand with sea" and especially "you with me." (1984)