Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.
1947 Newbery Honor Titles
The wonderful year by Nancy Barnes ; Ill. Kate Seredy.The wonderful year was a year of growing up for 12-year-old Ellen who did not think it would be a wonderful one at all when her family left their Kansas home for a fruit farming ranch in Colorado.
Call Number: Fic B261w
Publication Date: 1946
Big Tree by Mary Conrad BuffBecause of his fear of the sea, a young Chinese boy is sent to a distant mountain where he proves his bravery.
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M. Jewett; Frederick T. ChapmanIn 1171 twelve-year-old Hugh, burdened with a crippled leg since birth, is unhappy when his nobleman father, forced into exile in the bloody aftermath of King Henry's confrontation with Archbishop Thomas Becket, leaves him in the care of the monks of Glastonbury Abbey.