Newbery Medal Winners Three-Book Collection
Bud, Not Buddy; Moon Over Manifest; When You Reach Me
Published on 30. June 2020
912 pages
978-0-593-37524-2 (ISBN)
Description
Three Newbery Medal winners-Christopher Paul Curtis's Bud, Not Buddy, Clare Vanderpool's Moon Over Manifest, and Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me-come together in this collection that's perfect for catching up on old favorites and discovering new ones.
Whether you're looking for an escape or eager to catch up on some summer reading, the three award-winning titles in this collection will stay with you.
Titles featured include:
· Bud, Not Buddy: It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan, and a motherless boy named Bud decides to hit the road to find his father in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963.
· Moon Over Manifest: Armed only with a few possessions, Abilene Tucker jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, aiming to learn about the boy her father once was. What she discovers sends her and some new friends on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt.
· When You Reach Me: Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes that seem to predict the future. If that's the case, then Miranda has a big problem-because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it.
Turn to this three-book collection for the classics you remember and the stories you'll never forget.
Whether you're looking for an escape or eager to catch up on some summer reading, the three award-winning titles in this collection will stay with you.
Titles featured include:
· Bud, Not Buddy: It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan, and a motherless boy named Bud decides to hit the road to find his father in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963.
· Moon Over Manifest: Armed only with a few possessions, Abilene Tucker jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, aiming to learn about the boy her father once was. What she discovers sends her and some new friends on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt.
· When You Reach Me: Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes that seem to predict the future. If that's the case, then Miranda has a big problem-because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it.
Turn to this three-book collection for the classics you remember and the stories you'll never forget.
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Christopher Paul Curtis won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, was also singled out for many awards. Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. He is now a full-time writer, and lives with his family in Windsor, Ontario.
Clare Vanderpool is the author of Newbery Medal winner Moon Over Manifest and Printz Honor book Navigating Early. She lives in Kansas with her husband and their four children.
Rebecca Stead is the author of When You Reach Me, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction; Liar & Spy, which was also a New York Times bestseller, won the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction, and was on multiple state master lists and best of the year lists; Goodbye Stranger, which was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller; and most recently, The List of Things That Will Not Change. She is also the author of First Light, which was nominated for many state awards. She lives in New York City with her family.
Clare Vanderpool is the author of Newbery Medal winner Moon Over Manifest and Printz Honor book Navigating Early. She lives in Kansas with her husband and their four children.
Rebecca Stead is the author of When You Reach Me, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction; Liar & Spy, which was also a New York Times bestseller, won the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction, and was on multiple state master lists and best of the year lists; Goodbye Stranger, which was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller; and most recently, The List of Things That Will Not Change. She is also the author of First Light, which was nominated for many state awards. She lives in New York City with her family.
