Newbery Winners and Honors: 1994 Winner & Honorees

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.

Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.

Eleanor Roosevelt by Russell Freedman A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own. The intriguing story of Eleanor Roosevelt traces the life of the former First Lady from her early childhood through the tumultuous years in the White House to her active role in the founding of the United Nations after World War II.