The Newbery Heights Neighborhood is named after the John Newbery
Award, which is awarded annually to the most distinguished contribution
to children's literature. For more information on the Newbery Award, visit
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html.
Each of the streets in the Newbery Heights neighborhood is named after a
recipient of the Newbery Award. The following are the recipients that
have a street in the neighborhood named after them, the name of their
book, and the year they won the Newbery Award.
Lois Lowry
1994 The Giver
1990 Number the Stars
Cynthia Rylant
1993 Missing May
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1992 Shiloh
Sid Fleischman
1987 The Whipping Boy
Paul Fleischman
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for 2 Voices
Ellen Raskin
1979 The Westing Game
Betsy Byars
1971 Summer of the Swans