Newbery Award Library Box Set 1: It's Like This Cat / Julie of the Wolves / Onion John / Sounder

by Emily Cheney Neville, Jean Craighead George, Joseph Krumgold

Newbery Award Library"Four Newbery Medal-winning novels about the adventure of growing upIt's Like This, Catby Emily Cheney NevilleDave has problems with his father. So he roams the city streets a lot, which leads hint to befriend a tough tomcat, a troubled 19-year-old boy, and a girt at a record counter, who change the way he, sees himself, his father ... and life.Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead George

Lost on the Alaskan tundra, Miyax, a runaway Eskimo girl, realizes that only the wolves can help her. How she befriends Amaroq, an alpha wolf, who saves her life and gives her a new appreciation of her heritage, is a heart-expanding adventure story.Onion Johnby Joseph Krumgold

Who is to say who you are? You, or someone else? It takes Onion John, an immigrant worker whom the, townsfolk are always trying to help in the wrong way, to make Andy, a star Little Leaguer -- and future engineer, according to his father -- understand about making choices.Sounderby William H. Armstrong

This epic story, which was made into the famous award-winning movie, tells of the adversities that befall a black sharecropper and his family, and of the dignity and love with which theyand their faithful coon dog, Sounder -- respond.

Paperback

First published October 2, 1985

About the author

Emily Cheney Neville, an American author of children's books, was born in Manchester, Connecticut in 1919 and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1940.
In 1963, she wrote her first book, "It's Like This, Cat", which was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1964.

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