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The Honor Jam features Newbery Honor-winning titles with protagonists in situations where staying true to themselves isn’t easy. As the characters wrestle with difficult decisions, your students will learn that sometimes the right choice takes courage, maturity, and understanding.

Featuring the books:

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

This gripping drama of a boy alone in the wilderness with only a hatchet and a fierce will to survive is Paulsen’s most famous book.
“This is a heart-stopping story: it seems that at every moment Brian is forced to face a life-and-death decision, and every page makes readers wonder at the density of descriptive detail Paulsen has expertly woven together. Poetic texture and realistic events are combined to create something beyond adventure, a book that plunges readers into the cleft of the protagonist’s experience.”—Booklist

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Jeffrey “Maniac” Magee is a young boy growing up in Pennsylvania. He’s a star athlete, and good at everything he does. But there’s a fine line between fiction and fact in a small town, and Jeffrey soon finds that living up to his own hype is not as easy as he thought.
“…the book will stimulate thinking about racism, and it might help educate those readers who, like so many students, have no first-hand knowledge of people of other races. Pathos and compassion inform a short, relatively easy-to-read story with broad appeal, which suggests that to solve problems of racism, people must first know each other as individuals.”—School Library Journal

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

At turns comic, tragic, and touching, this remarkable story will delight readers of all ages. Ten year old Kenny Watson and his family set out on a trip from Michigan to Grandma’s house in Birmingham, Alabama. Unknown to them, they’re heading toward one of the darkest moments in America’s history.
“Ribald humor, sly sibling digs, and a totally believable child’s view of the world will make this book an instant hit.”—School Library Journal