Townsend Children's Award Winning Books | Northampton - Forbes Library

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1) The adventures of Beekle: the unimaginary friend

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Book, Audio-enabled Book

Description

This magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again, he sets off on an incredible journey to the bustling city, where he finally meets his perfect match and'at long last'is given his special name: Beekle. The #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Dan Santat'creator of After the Fall and...

2) Always room for one more

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Leodhas, Sorche Nic

Description

In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by.

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Anatole books volume 1

Description

A French mouse decides to earn an honest living by tasting the cheese in a cheese factory and leaving notes about its quality.

4) A ball for Daisy

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Raschka, Christopher

Description

A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.

5) Big

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Harrison, Vashti

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Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is. "Once there was a girl. She had a big heart and very big dreams. And it was good. Until it wasn't. The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning and bestselling creator Vashti Harrison traces a child's journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both...

6) Bridge to Terabithia

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Paterson, Katherine

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Book, Audiobook Cassette, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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Living in rural Virginia, ten-year-old Jess and Leslie become special friends as they create a magical secret world that they call Terabithia. But when a tragic accident causes Leslie's death during a storm, Jess is forced to face life alone. "This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling-author Katherine Paterson has been a modern classic about friendship and loss for forty years. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest...

7) Bud, not Buddy

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Curtis, Christopher Paul

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Book, Audio-enabled Book, Audiobook Cassette, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, Large Print

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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

8) Caddie Woodlawn

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Brink, Carol Ryrie

Series

Caddie Woodlawn

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, Playaway

Description

Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

9) Call it courage

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Sperry, Armstrong

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

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Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea, which killed his mother when he was a baby, and proves his courage to himself and his people.

10) Chanticleer and the fox

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Cooney, Barbara

Description

A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.

11) Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper

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Perrault, Charles

Description

Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecott medal.

12) Creepy carrots!

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Reynolds, Aaron

Series

Creepy tales! volume 1

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Book, Audio-enabled Book, CD + Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.

13) Crispin: The Cross of Lead

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Crispin volume 2

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, Playaway

Description

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

14) The crossover

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Alexander, Kwame

Series

Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1

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Book, Audio-enabled Book, Audiobook CD, Audiobook MP3-CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway

Description

"A bolt of lightning on my kicks ... The court is sizzling. My sweat is drizzling. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," raps basketball phenom Josh Bell. Thanks to his dad, he and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court, with crossovers that make even the toughest ballers cry. But Josh has more than hoops in his blood. He's got a river of rhymes flowing through him - a sick flow that helps him find his rhythm when everything's...

15) Dicey's song

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Tillerman family volume 2

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

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Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

16) Elf dog & owl head

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Quarantined with his family as a global plague ravages the world, Clay retreats to the woods where he meets a special little dog who leads him on surreal adventures where choosing the wrong path could cause them both to lose their way forever.

17) The eyes and the impossible

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Book, Audio-enabled Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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From the award-winning author of The Every and the illustrator behind the beloved picture book Her Right Foot comes an endearing and beautifully illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyesto see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park's elders, three ancient Bison. His friendsa seagull, a raccoon,...

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Series

Caldecott medal book volume 1981

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Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

19) The faithful friend

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San Souci, Robert D

Description

A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique.

20) Finding Winnie: the true story of the world's most famous bear

Author

Mattick, Lindsay

Series

Recorded Books new reader

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Book, Audio-enabled Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook

Description

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.