Pierre Cache
Author
Publisher
Newbery Award Records
Pub. Date
c1973.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bright Morning and her friend, both Navajos, are kidnapped by Spanish slave traders and forced to work in a Mexican village as household slaves, then return to Canyon de Chelly, only to face a new threat from the white man.
Author
Publisher
Newbery Award Records
Pub. Date
p1973.
Language
English
Description
"Keeping pigeons as pets is common among the young boys of Calcutta, India. But the carrier pigeon Gay-Neck is unique. In the course of his adventures, he is as much the teacher as the student of young Dhan, his owner and trainer. Gay-Neck serves heroically in World War I, carying messages, but must struggle to overcome a paralyzing fear acquired at the battlefront. How does he find the incentive to fly again? The answer offers young readers insight...
Author
Publisher
Newbery Award Records
Pub. Date
p1975.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Franny Davis has several things on her mind. Her best friend is developing a friendship with another classmate, her dad is out of work leaving her mother to work and Franny to look after her younger brother. An amusing chain of events leads to Fanny learning how to compromise and deal with growing up.
Author
Publisher
Newbery Award Records
Pub. Date
p1973.
Language
English
Description
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.