Monday, October 29, 2012

Possible Newbery Medal Winners?

Librarians from around the area have chosen these 30 books as the top contenders to win the 2013 Newbery Medal for best in children's literature. Read and decide yourself!

The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate
Here Come the Girl Scouts!: the Amazing All-True Story of Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure
by Shana Corey

Dumpling Days
by Grace Lin

Jake & Lily
by Jerry Spinelli

No Crystal Stair
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Mighty Miss Malone
by Christopher Paul Curtis

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: the Story Behind an American Friendship
by Russell Freedman

Kindred Souls
by Patricia MacLachlan

Liar & Spy
by Rebecca Stead

The Brixen Witch
by Stacy DeKeyser

Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen
by Donna Gephart

Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
by Phillip Hoose

Twelve Kinds of Ice
by Ellen Bryan Obed

The Boy on Cinnamon Street
by Phoebe Stone

Remarkable
by Lizzie Foley

Letters to Leo by Amy Hest

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster

by Deborah Hopkinson

Wonder
by R.J. Palacio

Three Times Lucky
by Sheila Turnage

The Great Unexpected
by Sharon Creech


Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire

by Polly Horvath

We’ve Got a Job: the 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
by Cynthia Levinson

Summer of the Gypsy Moths
by Sara Pennypacker

Crow
by Barbara Wright

Year of the Book
by Andrea Cheng

The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr., aka Houdini
by Peter Johnson

Stay: the True Story of Ten Dogs
by Michaela Muntean

Splendors and Glooms
by Laura Amy Schlitz

May B
by Caroline Starr Rose

Who Could That Be At This Hour?
by Lemony Snicket

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