Possible Newbery Medal Winners

The librarians in the area meet and pick a book that they think deserves to win the Newbery Medal- the top award for the best in literature for children in the US. Here is the list that we are considering. You might find some great new books to read from the list!

Okay for Now

by Gary Schmidt

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

by Candace Fleming

The Aviary

by Kathleen O’Dell

Never Forgotten

by Patrica McKissackYoung Fredle by Cynthia Voight
The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin
Lunch-Box Dream by Tony Abbott


Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider by Jean Fritz
Bird in a Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Icefall by Matthew Kirby
Small Persons with Wings by Ellen Booraem
Sparrow Road by Sheila O’Connor
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom by Sue Macy
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Warp Speed by Lisa Yee
Hidden by Helen Frost
Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

The Trouble with May Amelia

by Jennifer Holm

The Mostly True Story of Jack

by Kelly Barnhill

The Apothecary

by Maile MeloyOil Spill: Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico by Elaine Landau
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

by Andrea Warren

True(…Sort of)

by Katherine Hannigan

Junonia

by Kevin HenkesSmall as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson