Showing posts with label Newbery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newbery. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

2022 Newbery Possibilities

   purchased for school have read but not purchased  other info
AND = Anderson BkShp Mock Newbery (25)
HM = Heavy Medal Mock Newbery List/SLJ (15)
HrnBk = HornBook Fanfare/Best of the Year 
*Have Read Some or ALL

Albus, Kate - A Place to Hang the Moon (9 - 12 yrs.) [10.50 Aud]
*Alston, B. B. - Amari & the Night Brothers AND      own on Aud  
Appelt, Kathi - Once Upon a Camel AND (gr. 3-6)
Arnold, Alana K. - The House That Wasn't There [11.98 Aud]
Arnold, Marie - The Year I Flew Away [10.50 Aud]
Bauer, Marion Dane - Sunshine
Braden, Anne  - Flight of the Puffin  
Bruchac, Joseph Peacemaker (9 - 12 yrs.) (SLJ gr. 5up)
Bruchac, Joseph - Rez Dogs  
Caprara, Rebecca - Worst-Case Collin
*Carr, Cathy - 365 Days to Alaska [no Aud]
Cuevas, Adriana - Cuba in My Pocket AND 
*Day, Christine - The Sea in Winter AND  (8 - 12 yrs) (SLJ gr. 4-6) started
*de la Pena, Matt - Milo Imagines the World HM 
diCamillo, Kate - Beatryce Prophecy AND HM HrnBk
Dobbs, Alda P. - Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna AND (Gr.5-8)
Ewing, Eve L. - Maya and the Robot AND  (gr. 3-(gr. 6)
*Faruqi, Reem - Unsettled AND 
Faruqi, Saadia - Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero AND 
*Fipps, Lisa, Starfish AND  HM  (ages 10 - 13/SLJ gr. 5 up)  
Freeman - Alone
*Gratz, Alan - Ground Zero (9 - 12 yrs.) SLJ gr. 4-7  
Grimes, Nikki - Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance (10 - 14 yrs) SLJ gr. 7up
Guerro, Tanya - All You Knead is Love   
Haydu, Corey Ann - One Jar of Magic (8 - 12 yrs.) (SLJ gr. 4-7) [Aud. 13.68]
Higuera, Donna Barbra - The Last Cuentista AND HM 
*Holm, Jennifer L. The Lion of Mars (8 - 12 yrs.) 
Ireland, Justina - Ophie's Ghosts  (HF) AND   [Aud.HM  13.68] (gr. 3-6)
Jenkins, Emily - Harry vs. the First 100 Days of School HM 
Johnson, Varian - Playing the Cards You're Dealt AND (gr. 3-6)
Kelly, Erin Entrada - Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey HrnBk(short book)
Khor, Shing Yin - The Legend of Auntie Po AND HM HrnBk (GN)
*Korman, Gordon - Linked AND 
*Korman, GordonUnplugged (8 - 12 yrs.) (SLJ gr 3-5)  
Lane - Pity Party HM 
*LaRocca, RajaniRed, White, and Whole HM  (ages 8 - 12/SLJ gr. 5 up) 
*Levithan, David The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as told to his brother) (8 - 12 yrs.) SLJ gr.5up) 
Li, Christine - Clues to the Universe   
Lucido, Aimee - Recipe for Disaster
*Lukoff, Kyle Too Bright to See AND HM 
Mercado, Yehudi -  Chunky AND 
Milford, Kate - The Raconteur's Commonplace Book (8 - 12 yrs.-))
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert - DaVinci's Cat AND 
Oh, Ellen - Finding Junie Kim [Aud 15.40]
Oshiro, Mark - The Insiders AND 
Park Linda Sue - The One Thing You'd Save   HrnBk 
Paulsen, Gary - Gone to the Woods (SLJ gr. 7up)
Rivera, Kaela - Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls AND 
Royce, Eden - Root Magic [Aud 15.40]
Schlitz, Laura Amy - Amber & Clay HM HrnBk (10 - 14 yrs,)
Schmidt, Gary D. - Just Like That HM  (SLJ gr. 5-8) (Aud. 14.00)
Sheinkein,  Steve - Fallout HM 
Sloan, Holly Goldberg - The Elephant in the Room [Aud 12.60]
Smith, Cynthia Leitich - Ancestor Approved (8 - 12 yrs.) (SLJ gr. 3-6) 
Smith, Cynthia Leitich - Sisters of the Neversea AND 
Sonnenblick, Jordan - The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell  own on Aud
Stroker, Ali & Davidowitz - The Chance to Fly
Valenti, Karla Arenas - Loteria AND 
Venkatraman, Padma - Born Behind Bars AND 
*Wang, Andrea - Watercress HM 
Warga, Jasmine - The Shape of Thunder AND 
Weatherford, Carole Bolton - Unspeakable (SLJ gr 3-6)
Yelchin, Eugene - The Genius Under the Table HM 
Young, Brian - Healer of the Water Monster AND 

GoodReads Newbery Group:

What Book Should We Read in August?
    48/36.1%  Shape of Thunder - Warga
    26/19.5%  Finding Junie Kim - Oh
    26/19.5%  Alone - Freeman
    11/8.3%  Sisters of the Neversea - Smith
    10/7.5%  Amber & Clay - Schlitz
    8/6.0%  Pity Party - Lane
    2/1.2%  The Road to Wherever - Bradley
    2/1.2% Tune It Out (published 2020?)

Saturday, March 2, 2019

One-Sentence Summaries

The Newbery Award is an annual award for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.  (It was the first Children's Book Award in the world - 1922.)

The Caldecott Award is an annual award for the artist of the best illustrated American children's book of the previous year.

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to an outstanding African America AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR.

Hello Lighthouse by Blackall, Sophie
     2019 Caldecott Award Winner
          Follow a lighthouse keeper's life in a tiny, isolated lighthouse that sits on a rock in the middle of the sea -  first alone....then with his wife....then with a child, until the lighthouse becomes automated.

Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
     2019 Newbery Award Winner
          Merci Suarez is a scholarship student at an expensive academy in Florida - dealing with all the complications of being a preteen/middleschooler both at school and at home.  It's a really heartwarming story.

The Stuff of Stars by Ekua  (AY-kwa) Holmes
     2019 Coretta Scott King Illustration Winner
          Using hand-marbled paper and collage, Ekua Holmes created a stunning visual re-creation of how the universe was formed.

Friday, January 18, 2019

PICTURE BOOK - Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman

Illustrated by  Rick Allen
2011 Newbery Honor
2010. Houghton Mifflin
HC $16.99
32 pgs.
Goodreads rating:  3.97 - 1853 ratings
My rating:  4
Endpapers:  solid royal purple
Illustrations:  Woodprints?

My comments:  Sophisticated poetry about some of the creatures that creep in the woods at night, illustrated with lovely prints by Rick Allen.


Goodreads:

Welcome to the Night

To all of you who crawl and creep,
who buzz and chirp and hoot and peep,
who wake at dusk and throw off sleep;
Welcome to the night.

To you, who make the forest sing,
who dip and dodge on silent wing,
who flutter, hover, clasp, and cling:
Welcome to the night!

Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,
come smell your way among the trees,
come touch rough bark and leathered leaves;
Welcome to the night.

The night's a sea of dappled dark,
the night's a feast of sound and spark,
the night's a wild, enchanted park.
Welcome to the night!

Sunday, January 13, 2019

The Newbery Award

2021
 When You Trap a Tiger (Tae Keller) 
Honors: 
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team - Soontornvat 
Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom - Weatherford (picture book) 
Fighting Words - Bradley 
We Dream of Space - Kelly
A Wish in the Dark - Soontornvat 
2020
New Kid - Jerry Craft
Honors:
The Undefeated - Kwame Alexander
Scary Stories for Young Foxes - Christian McKay Heidicker
Other Words for Home - Jasmine Warga
Genesis Begins Again - Alicia D. Williams

2019
Merci Suarez Changes Gears (Meg Molina)
Honors:
The Night Diary (Hiranandani)
The Book of Boy (Murdock)

2018  Hello Universe (Erin Entrada Kelly)
Honors:
Crown, An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Derek Barnes)
Long Way Down (Jason Reynolds)
Piecing Me Together (Renee Watson)

2017 The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Kelly Barnhill)
Honors:
Freedom Over Me : Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life (Ashley Bryan)
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog (Adam Godwitz)
Wolf Hollow (Lauren Wolk)

2016 Last Stop on Market Street (Matt dela Pena)
Honors:
The War That Saved My Life (Kimberly Brubaker Bradley)
Roller Girl (Victoria Jamieson)
Echo (Pam Munoz Ryan)

2015 The Crossover (Kwame Alexander)
Honors:
El Deafo (Cece Bell)
Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson)

2014 Flora & Ulysses:  The Illuminated Adventures (Kate DiCamillo)
Honors:
Doll Bones (Holly Black)
The Year of Billy Miller (Devin Henkes)
One Came Home (Amy Timberlake)
Paperboy (Vince Vawter)_

2013 The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate)
Honors:
Splendors and Glooms (Laura May Schlitz)
Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Steve Steinkin)
Three Times Lucky (Sheila Turnage)

2012 Dead End in Norvelt (Jack Gantos)
Honors:
Inside Out & Back Again (Thanhha Lai)
Breaking Stalin's Nose (Eugene Yelchin)


2011 Moon over Manifest (Claire Vanderpool)
Honors:
Turtle in Paradise (Jennifer L. Holm)
Heart of a Samurai (Margi Preus)
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night (Joyce Sidman)
One Crazy Summer (Rita Williams-Garcia)

2010 When You Reach Me (Rebecca Stead)
Honors:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Philip Hoose)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Jacqueline Kelly)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Grace Lin)
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Rodman Philbrick)

2009 The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
Honors:
The Underneath (Kathi Appelt)
The Surrender Tree: Poems for Cuba's Struggle for Freedom (Margarita Engle)
Savvy (Ingrid Law)
After Tupac & D Foster (Jacqueline Woodson)


2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (Laura Amy Schlitz)
Honors:
Elijah of Buxton (Christopher Paul Curtis)
The Wednesday Wars (Gary D. Schmidt)
Feathers (Jacqueline Woodson)

2007 The Higher Power of Lucky (Susan Patron)
Honors:
Penny from Heaven (Jennifer L. Holm)
Hattie Big Sky (Kirby Larson)
Rules (Cynthia Lord)

2006 Criss Cross (Lyunne Rae Perkins)
Honors:
Whittington (Alan Armstrong)
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Susan Campbell Bartoletti)
Princess Academy (Shannon Hale)
Show Way (Jacqueline Woodson)

2005 Kira-Kira (Cynthia Kadohata)
Honors:
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko)
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Russell Freedman)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Gary D. Schmidt)

2004  The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (Kate DiCamillo)
Honors:
Olive's Ocean (Kevin Henkes)
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Jim Murphy)

2003  Crispin:  The Cross of Lead (Avi)
Honors: 
The House of Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)
Pictures of Hollis Woods (Patricia Reilly Giff)
Hoot (Carl Hiaasen)
A Corner of the Universe (Ann M. Martin)
Surviving the Applewhites (Stephanie S. Tolan)

2002  A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park)
Honors:
Everything on a Waffle (Polly Horvath)
Carver, A Life in Poems (Marilyn Nelson)

2001 A Year Down Yonder (Richard Peck)
Honors:
Hope Was Here (Joan Bauer)
Because of Winn-Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)
Joey Pigza Loses Control (Jack Gantos)
The Wanderer (Sharon Creech)

2000 Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)
Honors:
Getting Near to Baby (Audrey Couloumbis)
Our Only May Amelia (Jennifer L. Holm)
26 Fairmount Ave. (Tomie dePola)

Friday, December 21, 2018

2019 Newbery Challenge


Here are the rules:
Each book you read is worth points. You get:
  • 3 points for a Newbery Medal Winner
  • 2 points for a Newbery Honor Book
  • 1 point for a Caldecott Book (Both Medal winners and Honor books are worth a point.)
January, 2019:
The Man Who Walked Between The Towers by Mordicai Gerstain , 2003, Caldecott MEDAL  1 point
Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan, 2016 Newbery Honor, 2 pts. 
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe, 2017 Caldecott MEDAL, 1 pt.
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night  by Joyce Sidman, 2011 Newbery Honor, 1 pt.
Points so far:  5

In addition to that, you pick a level to aim for:
  • L'Engle: 15 - 29 points
  • Spinelli: 30 - 44 points
  • Avi: 45 - 59 points
  • Lowry: 60 - 74 points
  • Konigsburg: 75+ points