Try matching the opening lines -- a sentence or two -- with the
titles of sixteen Newbery winners and honor books from the
seventies, eighties, and nineties. The openings (1-16) are in
alphabetical order; the novels (A-P) are listed chronologically.
When the name of a title character is mentioned, it is "bleeped
out" with a fill-in-the-blank line. The year following the novel's
title and author is the year when the novel was selected as a
Newbery Medal winner or Honor book. Answers are on page 49 (Or just
click on the number).
| 1. |
As soon as the snow melts, I'll go to Rass and fetch my mother.
At Crisfield I'll board the ferry.... |
| 2. |
Dear __________: My teacher read your book about the dog to our
class. It was funny. |
| 3. |
"Did Mama sing every day?" asked Caleb. "Every single day?" He
sat close to the fire, his chin in his hand. |
| 4. |
Ever since I can remember, I had wanted to know about the Land
of the Golden Mountain, but my mother had never wanted to talk
about it. |
| 5. |
If books could be more, could show more, could own more, this
book would have smells.... |
| 6. |
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be
frightened. No, wrong word, Jonas thought. |
| 7. |
Jimmy Little sat on the edge of the bed, eyes closed, listening
to the rain that beat against the window. In the street below cars
hissed by. |
| 8. |
"Look down on this scene," Rachel writes in her notebook.
"Three people in a kitchen, sitting around a table. A man, a woman,
and a girl." |
| 9. |
"Little Man, would you come on? You keep it up and you're gonna
make us late." |
| 10. |
Miyak pushed back the hood of her sealskin parka and looked at
the arctic sun. It was a yellow disk in a lime-green sky.... |
| 11. |
The day __________ comes, we're having us a big Sunday dinner.
Dara Lynn's dipping bread in her glass of cold tea, the way she
likes.... |
| 12. |
The tall man stood at the edge of the porch. The roof sagged
from two rough posts which held it. |
| 13. |
The young prince was known here and there (and just about
everywhere else) as Prince Brat. Not even black cats would cross
his path. |
| 14. |
They say __________ was born in a dump. They say his stomach
was a cereal box and his heart a sofa spring. |
| 15. |
12th Day of December: I am commanded to write an account of my
days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is
to say. |
| 16. |
When __________ died, Ob came back to the trailer, got out his
good suit and into regular clothes, then went and sat in the Chevy
for the rest of the night. |
| A. |
Sounder (William H. Armstrong, 1970) |
| B. |
Dear Mr. Henshaw (Beverly Byars, 1971) |
| C. |
Julie of the Wolves (Jean Craighead George, 1973) |
| D. |
Dragonwings (Lawrence Yep, 1976) |
| E. |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred Taylor, 1977) |
| F. |
Jacob Have I Loved (Katherine Paterson, 1981) |
| G. |
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan, 1986) |
| H. |
The Whipping Boy (Sid Fleischman, 1987) |
| I. |
After the Rain (Norma Fox Mazer, 1988) |
| J. |
The Winter Room (Gary Paulsen, 1990) |
| K. |
Maniac Magee (Jerry Spinelli, 1991) |
| L. |
Shiloh (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 1992) |
| M. |
Missing May (Cynthia Rylant, 1993) |
| N. |
The Giver (Lois Lowry, 1994) |
| O. |
Somewhere in the Darkness (Walter Dean Myers, 1995) |
| P. |
Catherine, Called Birdy (Karen Cushman, 1995) |
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