Lily here. Nothing says fall and school quite like required reading and book reports. And an awful lot of those required books seem to be Newbery award winners. We have, over the course of the year, acquire our set of the human's favorites from when she was a rather small human. (Or, in some cases, a medium or mostly grown human).
Theses are the set of historical fiction/slice of life books, because in some cases ('Miracles on Maple Hill' and 'Thimble Summer') the books were contemporary fiction when they were published.
The human has a special fondness for books by Lois Lenski (partly because they were impossible to find in libraries). She's best know for her two Newbery books these days, but her portfolio includes the books on regional American in 1940s, which gives a very different sense of life in the US since they cover things like prairie schools, sharecroppers, and migrant workers. Usually not covered in history class, at least not from a 'here's how they would have lived' perspective.
If you haven't read any of these before (and I don't think 'Thimble Summer' or 'Miracles on Maple Hill' are among the more popular Newberys these days, you should find a copy and do so.
In 'Thimble Summer' a girl living on a farm during the Great Depression finds a silver thimble while swimming in a nearby creek and wishes on it that life might be better. The book covers her life and how it changes for the rest of the summer. In 'Miracles on Maple Hill', a girl and her family move to maple farm in hopes that the quiet environment will help with her father's PTSD.
And finally, 'Charlotte's Web'. Complete with illustrations. We're sharing this with you so you don't have to pay the absurd Ebay prices for it.
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