num_pages: 2
description: Beverly 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.
language: English
title: Dear Mr. Henshaw
titlecomplete: Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)
genres: Classics, Chapter Books, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, School, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 40264
places: Pacific Grove, California, California
series: Leigh Botts
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: California Book Award
category: Juvenile (Silver), awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Nene Award, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Massachusetts Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Oklahoma Sequoyah Award
publisher: Recorded Books