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Harold Keith

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born

Lambert, Oklahoma Territory, The United States

died

February 24, 1998

gender

male

genre

Children's Books, Historical Fiction

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Harold Keith lived his entire life in Oklahoma, a state that he greatly loved and which served as the setting for many of his books.
Perhaps his best known story, the historical novel "Rifles for Watie", was first released in 1957. It went on to win the 1958 John Newbery Medal and the 1964 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
In 1998, Harold Keith died of congestive heart failure, in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Books by Harold Keith

Average rating: 3.81 · 2,258 ratings · 180 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Rifles for Watie 3.80 avg rating — 2,227 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Rifles for Watie 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Brief Garland: Ponytails. Basketball, and Nothing But Net by Harold Keith, Newbery Medal Winner 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Komantcia 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Forty-seven Straight: The Wilkinson Era at Oklahoma by Harold Keith, Berry Tramel (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Obstinate Land 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Chico and Dan 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Oklahoma Kickoff: An Informal History of the First Twenty-Five Years at the University of Oklaho 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	When I Was Growing Up 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Bluejay Boarders by Harold Keith, Harold Berson (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	My rating:

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What Newbery Medal winning book would you like to read in September?

1982 - A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

6 votes 37.5%

1952 - Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

4 votes 25.0%

1923 - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

3 votes 18.8%

1958 - Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

2 votes 12.5%

1942 - The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

1 vote 6.3%

16 total votes

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