Jocelyn Van Tuyl

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The Book That Made Me Hate the Newbery

It took only one book to make me hate all things Newbery. It was autumn 1975, and my sixth-grade teacher assigned us Paula Fox’s The Slave Dancer, which had won the Newbery Award the previous year. Set in 1840, the novel follows Jessie Bollier, a white thirteen-year-old boy kidnapped from...
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