Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1957 Winner & Honorees

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

Old Yeller takes place in a small town in central Texas in the late 1860's. It is the story of a 14 year old boy named Travis Coates who must take care of his mama and little brother Arliss while his papa takes the cattle to market. An old yeller dog wanders onto the farm and steals the family's meat. Travis's hate for the old dog soon turns to love when the dog rescues Arliss from an angry mother bear.

After this Travis and the dog which he names Old Yeller are inseparable. Old Yeller helps Travis with all the routine chores such as chasing off raccoons from the corn field, branding the pigs, and even with milking the cow.

Old Yeller becomes essential to the Coates family, saving their lives time and again.

Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.

A biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., describing his early education at dame and Latin schools and Harvard College, his years of military service during the Civil War, his study of law, his work on The Common Law and his years as lawyer and judge in Massachusetts and as justice of the Supreme Court.

Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatán, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.

The story occurs in the tenth century, with two Viking twins shipwrecked on the Scottish coast. They seek to avenge the death of their father and encounter loyal clansmen at war, kindly shepherds, power-hungry lairds and staunch crofters.