Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1972 Winner & Honorees

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.

A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.

Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.

Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.

A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult.