CALL IT COURAGE

Armstrong Sperry

Genre: Children's Fiction

Published: 1940

Personal Rating: 2.25/5

Yearly Count: 11

Call It Courage is about a young Polynesian boy that has a fear of the sea. After being branded a coward, he decides to prove that he is courageous and ventures out into the deep blue.

This book won the 1941 Newbery Award. I didn't find it worthy, but apparently someone did. Maybe there wasn't much competition that year.