Dear Mr. Henshaw: A Newbery Award Winner

Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s BookBeverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce | insecurity | and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author | Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate | Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father | Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds | the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins | Ramona Quimby | and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.