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1940 Awards

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1940 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Children's, Newbery Medal

1940 Newbery Medal – Children’s Winner and Nominees

1940 Newbery Medal - Children's WinnerDaniel BooneJames Daugherty...Amazon1940 Newbery Medal - Children's NomineesBoy with a PackStephen W. MeaderAmazonBy the Shores Of Silver LakeLaura Ingalls WilderAmazonRunner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis AgassizMabel RobinsonAmazonThe Singing TreeKate SeredyAmazon
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1940 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1940 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1940 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Grapes of WrathJohn SteinbeckAn epic human drama depicting the devastating effects of the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, cementing its place as the most American of American classics. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s ...Amazon
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1940 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1940 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1940 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerAbraham Lincoln: The War YearsCarl Sandburg"By the time this single-volume edition was completed, [Sandberg] had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our sixteenth president. His extraordinary portrait brings fully to life the country lawyer who would become one of the most inf...Amazon
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