Author
Rachel Field
2 books here
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · 750L · 1999
A Newbery winner that doesn't talk down — the inanimate narrator's voice is melancholy and wise, and kids who settle into it discover a quiet meditation on time, belonging, and what objects remember.
Calico Bush
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · 820L · 1970
A Newbery winner that deserves recovery—rich, unsentimental historical fiction about a girl learning to belong after loss, with prose that holds up and a frontier that feels real, not romanticized.