Masterplots II

***Volume 2 of 4 Only*** "Masterplots II, Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction", is the 7th set in the Masterplots II series, inaugurated in 1986 with the 4-volume "American Fiction Series." This volume contains criticisms and reviews for 480 stories, of which 445 of them are covered by the Masterplots (II) series for the first time. Books for readers age 10 to 18 form the focus here (picture books and other books for children under 10 fall outside the scope of this set), and several categories governed many of the choices of these titles. The editors' primary concern was to include as many as possible of those classics of the genre which had never before received coverage in this series. Nearly all of the Newbery Medal Winners appear here: Hugh Lofting's "The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle" (1923, Newbery Medal), Elizabeth Coatsworth's "The Cat Who Went to Heaven" (1930), Armstrong Sperry's "Call it Courage" (1941), Esther Forbes's "Johnny Tremain" (1944), Elizabeth George Speare's "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" (1959), Elizabeth Borton de Trevino's "I, Juan de Pareja" (1966), Mildred D. Taylor's "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" (1977), and Joan W. Blos's "A Gathering of Days" (1980) are among the 43 Newbery Medalists represented. Old favorites such as "Lassie Come-Home", Little House on the Prairie", "Little Lord Fauntleroy", the Mary Poppins Series, "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood", My Friend Flicka", "National Velvet", "Old Yeller" , "Pippi Longstockings", "Pollyanna", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms", "The Secret Garden", " Winnie-the-Pooh", and "The Wizard of Oz" are joined by newer works rapidly attaining the status of Classics: Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", E. B. White's "Charlotte's Web", and Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War", for example.