Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Children's Book Softcover 1977 A Newbery Award winner! Most dolls lead a comfortable but unadventurous life. This was true of Miss Hickory until the fateful day that her owner, Ann, moves from her New Hampshire home to attend school in Boston—leaving Miss Hickory behind. For a small doll whose body is an apple-wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, the prospect of spending a New Hampshire winter alone is frightening indeed. In this classic modern day fairy tale, what’s a doll to do? juvenile fiction award-winning middle grades action and adventure Charlotte Mason amblesideonline ambleside online living books homeschool classical conversations education literature