Newbery Project

M.C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton

March 26, 2012

I didn’t know much about this Newbery Medal (and National Book Award) winner by Virginia Hamilton except that I’d never read it, so I jumped at the chance to get the ebook from Open Road via NetGalley. Here’s the blurb: Mayo Cornelius Higgins perches on top of a homemade forty-foot tower, considering two destinies. Behind [...]

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A Wrinkle in Time; When You Reach Me; First Light

February 28, 2012

I recently was lucky enough to meet Rebecca Stead! I was so excited about this event that I engaged in extensive preparation beforehand. First, I read A Wrinkle in Time, as it’s mentioned throughout Stead’s Newbery-winning When You Reach Me. Then I reread When You Reach Me. And then I read Stead’s first book, First [...]

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

February 20, 2012

So, I finished this book the other day. And I’m still recovering from the punches in the gut. And yet, I’ve come away with the impression, nay conviction, that this was a beautiful book. Darn that Gary D. Schmidt. Oh yeah. This one won both a Newbery AND a Printz honor. Crazy. So, Turner Ernest [...]

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One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

February 9, 2012

This highly honored book, including a Newbery Medal honor, by Rita Williams-Garcia kind of blew me away. Delphine, eleven, is and has almost always been in charge of looking after her two younger sisters, Vonetta, nine, and Fern, seven. While they live a nice life with Papa and Big Ma in Brooklyn, this summer they [...]

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2012 ALA Youth Media Award Winners

January 23, 2012

And the 2012 John Newbery Medal goes to: Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos And the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award goes to: Where Things Come Back, by John Corey Whaley (I’ve already updated the Printz Project with the winner and honor books. Head on over to check it out.) And the 2012 Caldecott [...]

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2011 ALA Youth Media Award Winners

January 10, 2011

And the 2011 John Newbery Medal goes to: Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool And the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award goes to: Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi (I’ve already updated the Printz Project with the winner and honor books. Head on over to check it out.) And the 2011 Caldecott Medal goes to: A [...]

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The Queen’s Thief Series, by Megan Whalen Turner

October 14, 2010

We read this series as a “summer assignment” for my book club. And I’m really glad we did. It’s a delightful series, though some books worked better for me than others. Warning, some minor spoilers in the latter book summaries appear due to the nature of reviewing a series. Title: The Thief Author: Megan Whalen [...]

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Missing May, by Cynthia Rylant

August 6, 2010

Title: Missing May Author: Cynthia Rylant Originally Published: 1992 Format I Read: Audio Publisher: Scholastic Rating: ____________________________ Missing May won the Newbery Medal in 1993. So, when I saw it on audio in my library, I had to pick it up. Summer, orphaned at a very young age, had been bounced around from inconvenienced relative [...]

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