Newbery Project

When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead

June 16, 2010

Title: When You Reach Me Author: Rebecca Stead Pages: 208 Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Copyright: 2009 Format: Hardback Rating: ____________________________ When You Reach Me won the 2010 Newbery Medal. So, I of course had to reach for it. Pun intended. Miranda’s life sort of takes a turn for . . . the odd in sixth [...]

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Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis

November 17, 2009

Title: Bud, Not Buddy Author: Christopher Paul Curtis Pages: N/A Publisher: Random House Copyright: 2000 Format: Audio Rating: ____________________________ So, in January, we bought a house, which is great. However, it changed my commute from about two minutes to thirty-five minutes each way. I’ve been NPR-ing it during the drive, until last week. I was [...]

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The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin

September 6, 2009

Title: The Westing Game Author: Ellen Raskin Pages: 182 Publisher: Puffin Modern Classics Copyright: 1978 Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ I picked up The Westing Game after reading that Suey at It’s All About Books was reading it. Also, it won the Newbery Medal in 1979, so I read it for the Newbery Project and the [...]

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The Midwife’s Apprentice, by Karen Cushman

May 17, 2009

Title: The Midwife’s Apprentice Author: Karen Cushman Pages: 128 Publisher: Clarion Books Copyright: 1995 Format: Hardback Rating: ____________________________ I picked up The Midwife’s Apprentice from the library because it won the Newbery Medal in 1996. Our protagonist is nameless, homeless, and hungry. She finds shelter in a village, in the dung heap of the village’s [...]

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Strawberry Girl, by Lois Lenski

April 28, 2009

Title: Strawberry Girl Author: Lois Lenski Pages: 194 Publisher: Harper Collins Copyright: 1945 Format: Hardback Rating: ____________________________ I picked up Strawberry Girl because it won the 1946 Newbery Award. Birdie Boyer and her family have moved down to southern Florida to start a farm. But they’ve got very different ideas about things than the neighbors, [...]

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The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo

November 17, 2008

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo was the winner of the 2004 Newbery Award. It has been made into a movie that will be released on December 19, 2008. So, Despereaux is a mouse. A very small mouse with [...]

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The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

October 10, 2008

I’ve been waiting for this book to come out for months, especially since I read Neil Gaiman’s blog everyday and have followed its development. I have to say I was a teensy bit disappointed. Here’s the gist of the plot: Nobody Owens lives in a graveyard. The inhabitants thereof took him in as a toddler [...]

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Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale

September 19, 2008

* Originally posted on 10/1/07 on another of my blogs. * This Newbery Honor Book follows the coming-of-age of its protagonist, Miri, as well as several of her acquaintances. Motherless Miri lives on Mount Eskel in a small mining community quite separate from the rest of the kingdom of which it is a part, Danland. [...]

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