Newbery Awards 1950-1959

1959
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

1958
A story of the western campaign of the Civil War.

1957
Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

1956
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.

1955
Six school children bring the storks (harbingers of good luck) back to their little Dutch village.

1954
The story of a young shepherd's coming of age in the mountains of New Mexico.

1953
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.

1952
When the Pye family's puppy, Ginger, disappears on Thanksgiving Day, the children are convinced that he has been abducted by a stranger in a yellow hat.

1951
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

1950
As the son of a nobleman, Robin's destiny is changed suddenly when he falls ill and loses the use of his legs