Tale of Despereaux

Being the tale of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread
by Kate DiCamillo, official website
Newberry medal recipient (2003)
Has also read: The Tiger Rising (2001), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006)

Bunnicula series

by Deborah and James Howe
from Wikipedia
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery

Bud, not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis (official website) (Wikipedia)

Interview with Curtis which ran on Minnesota Public Radio May 16, 2003.

Bud, Not Buddy from Wikipedia

Resources:

workbook

Flint, Michigan

Jazz

Shiloh

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Here we go with Beagle Book 2

questions and vocabulary by Gay Miller

Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

We listened to this Newberry Honor (1961) book on Overdrive Books.

at Wikipedia
questions

On My Honor

by Marion Dane Bauer
from Wikipedia
Newberry Honor 1987
questions

The Whipping Boy

by Sid Fleischman (1987), Newberry medal winner (1987)
author's official website

from Chapters

from Wikipedia

Resources

Terrific questions and vocuabulary by Gay Miller (more reading units for some very good books (-Magic Tree House series) by Miller et al.)