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NBA Longlist
This is old news, but worth sharing. For those of you who may have missed it last year, the National Book Award began announcing a longlist of 10 books before announcing the shortlist and eventual winner. The reason being to shine the spotlight on even more worthy books. The NBA typically skews older with 2/3 [...]
A Snicker of Magic
I haven’t read this one yet, so I’m going to quote its three starred reviews below and let you weigh in on the strengths and weaknesses in the comments below. Maybe you’ll convince me to read it sooner rather than later. KIRKUS: The protagonist of this debut joins a growing list of endearing young girls from [...]
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing
THREE TIMES LUCKY was a very mild surprise as a Newbery Honor book a couple of years ago. While I enjoyed Turnage’s debut, I did have some reservations about it (and I think Nina did, too). I acknowledged that I needed a second reading to sort out my feelings, but I just didn’t have the [...]
Could Squirrels Be the New Zombies?
I spent Monday presenting a Common Core seminar to elementary school librarians in Knoxville, TN. Our YMA feed stopped working properly during the Belpre Awards, so I had to wait until our morning break to see the full results. While the Newbery picks surprised me, all the books did get great reviews, and will now [...]
Virtual Winners
We had 76 voters which is about 5 times the size of the real committee. Our results are followed by some analysis. THE THING ABOUT LUCK . . . 16 (1st) + 6 (2nd) + 3 (3rd) = 88 points FAR FAR AWAY . . . 9 (1st) + 8 (2nd) + 8 (3rd) [...]
Calling the Virtual Mock Supercommittee!
It’s time for our virtual edition of the Mock Newbery! We’ll declare a winner and honor books after the first ballot so it won’t really be very similar to what the real committee will be doing, but it will still be a lot of fun, and that’s what counts, right? What follows is the list [...]
2013 Best Book Outliers
You’ll recall my Best Books Overlap post which demonstrates the way that Booklist, the Bulletin, Horn Book, Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly have already come to a kind of consensus. But each journal champions books that the others do not, and they are not necessarily any less distinguished because of it. Earlier this [...]
San Diego Winners
Seven people met at our very first San Diego Mock Newbery, and our results were as follows– Newbery Medal THE TRUE BLUE SCOUTS OF SUGAR MAN SWAMP by Kathi Appelt Newbery Honor ERUPTION! by Elizabeth Rusch We had our winner on our first ballot, and this is how the voting went. CLEMENTINE AND THE SPRING [...]
Saving the Best for Last?
What follows is the strange and fateful tale of a boy, a girl, and a ghost. The boy possessed uncommon qualities, the girl was winsome and daring, and the ancient ghost . . . well, let it only be said that his intentions were good. If more heavily seasoned with romance, this might have made [...]
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