Susan Patron's Favorite Newbery

by Horn Book
Jun 01, 2012 | Filed in Authors & Illustrators


My favorite Newbery is IslandoftheBlueDolphinsTheWitchofBlackbirdPondOutoftheDustASingleShardSarahPlainand TallMissingMayKiraKiraWalkTwoMoonsAWrinkleinTime. I love this work for its deft, graceful use of language and insight into the human heart, and for its extraordinarily fine storytelling.

—Susan Patron,
winner of the Newbery Medal in 2007 for The Higher Power of Lucky

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