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Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1993 Winner & Honorees

A listing of all the award & honor books since 1922.

1993 Newbery Award Winner

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Call Number: FIC MAY

ISBN: 0531085961

Publication Date: 1992

After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

1993 Newbery Honor Titles

What hearts by Bruce Brooks
Call Number: FIC BRO

ISBN: 0060211318

Publication Date: 1992

After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.
The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack
Call Number: FIC (SC) MCK

ISBN: 0679918639

Publication Date: 1992

A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.
Somewhere in the darkness by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: FIC MYE

ISBN: 0590424114

Publication Date: 1992

A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an, often painful, time of discovery for them both.

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