Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1966 Winner & Honorees

Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Juan de Pareja, a young slave who grew to become an assistant to the painter Velasquez.

Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain, faces dangers as he seeks the magical Black Cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of Arawn, lord of the Land of Death.

A lonely hunter living in the wilderness beside the sea gains a family made up of a mermaid, a bear, a lynx, and a boy.

Eleven-year-old Franny Davis and her best friend share school and family problems in this realistic, often humorous story set in New York's Greenwich Village.