Newbery Medal

The Giver was written by Lois Lowry in the year 1993. The Giver was a huge sensation to young adults. Lois Lowry has received many awards for her book. The greatest achievement for The Giver was The John Newbery Medal in 1994. Other medal awarded to Lois Lowry was the Regina Medal, William Allen White Award, and the American Library Association Award. The Giver has a presumptous plot. The story takes place sometime in the future in an utopian community. In the Utopian community, everything has to be perfect. At the age of 12, every child is force to get a job of the counsels choice. The main characters in the story is Jonas, The Giver, and Gabriel. When Jonas turned 12, he got the job of being the next receiver. The receiver…

adventure that dives deep into the Tartarus, you will find yourself gripping your seat. 7. Wonder by R.J.Palacio http://goo.gl/AUVoYz Wonder is number one Best seller on the New York Best Sellers List. It is the book that inspired the Choose Kind Movement. Over 3 million people have read this book, and fallen in love with August Pullman a 10 year old boy who likes Xbox and Star Wars. August Pullman is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. He is home schooled, and joins public school for…

The Bridge to Terabithia written by Katherine Patterson, won the Newbery Medal in 1987. This story was about a friendship between a boy named Jess and a girl named Leslie. In this story, they had an imaginary world they called Terabithia, and they were the queen and king.Their friendship was good, strong, and could not be broken. But one day, something tragic happens. Leslie dies and Jess has to use all his strength to recover from the tragic incident. This book deserved the Newbery award…

Everyone wants to live in a Utopian Society, in a society with perfect and desirable properties. Despite this deep longing one will learn that living in a society, in which everything is perfect, is not what one would expect, at least when one sees it through Lois Lowry’s eyes. Lowry is an American author who won many recognizable awards such as, the John Newbery Medal and the Regional Medal, for her original and intriguing young-adult novels. The Giver was one of Lowry’s most notable works and…

If we were to live in a world where choices are already made for us, then we would live in a world similar to the community of The Giver. The Giver is a world created by Lois Lowry. She is a two time John Newbery Medal winner. The Giver is a story about Jonas, becoming the next receiver of memory and learning the truth of the world. I believe that we should be able to make our own choices. It may lead to mistakes, but if we learn from them then we will know not to do that mistake or accident…

Holes is an amazing book with adventure and a mysterious cast of characters throughout the whole journey of the book. Holes is a book made by Louis Sachar that was adapted into a film by 2003 that starred the famous actor Shia LaBeouf as the main character. Holes has also won various amounts of rewards with one of the rewards being the 1998 NewBery Medal. Holes was a perfect book with a great story line and compelling characters. The book was released on August 20 in 1998. This book also has a…

The Giver was a very compulsive and noteworthy novel written by Lois Lowry, which had won a John Newbery Medal in 1994. It is the first book of a quartet, but each novel isn’t a continuation of the previous stories. The various genres for The Giver include young adult fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction and the infamous, science fiction. It’s setting takes places in an imaginary world in an unspecified year or time where pain, physical and emotional, doesn’t exist. Almost every person has no…

Louis Sachar Louis Sachar is a very successful American author that has written multiple award-winning books. He was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954 and is now 64 years old. He writes children books as well as young adult books, one of his most popular being Holes, which has won the U.S. National Book Award as well as the Newbery Medal. Now located in Austin, Texas with his wife Carla and daughter named Sherre, Sachar continues to write as well as play cards. Sachar understands…

When reading children's literature it is very important to put yourself into the shoes of a child. What are they imagining when they read a description of the setting, how are they creating a representation of the characters, how do these images impact their experience while reading? Many of these important aspects are taken oven by the director when a book is transferred into a movie. The Newbery Medal winner book, The Tale of Despereaux, was originally written in 2003 by Kate DiCamillo and was…

The Theme of Handmaid’s Tale Living a life without meaning is much akin to an ocean containing no water, all humans pursue their own particular meaning, and moments come when meaning can be brought closer in reach. The winds of time flow without a halt, opportunities to gain a better life scarcely leak out and sometimes one is left stranded in the dark. Time is a component quantity which plays a role in the sequence of events, and plays a significant role in providing opportunities for…