Final Call for Heavy Medal Readers Poll
287 Heavy Medal readers voted. 127 of you are new Heavy Medal Readers and 160 are returning readers.
So the Heavy Medal Readers Choice Award Goes to:
FRONT DESK by Kelly Yang
the runners up – those having received more than 20 votes – are:
Sweep
Louisiana’s Way Home
Hey, Kiddo!
The Book of Boy
The Night Diary
The Parker Inheritance
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
The optional Write-In Titles and Vote Counts are:
Amal Unbound x 2
Be Prepared x 2
Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead x 1
Cardboard Kingdom x 1
Endling by Katherine Applegate x 1
Finding Langston x 1
Genesis Begins Again x 1
Ghost Boys x 5
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson x 2
Merci Suarez Changes Gears x 1
My Year In The Middle or The Dollar Kids x 1
OUT OF LEFT FIELD by Ellen Klages x 1
The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden x 2
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle x 12
Until Tomorrow, Mr marsworth x 1
POLL HAS CLOSED!
Filed under: Process
About Roxanne Hsu Feldman
Roxanne Hsu Feldman is the Middle School (4th to 8th grade) Librarian at the Dalton School in New York City. She served on the 2002 and 2013 Newbery Committees. Roxanne was also a member of 2008-2009 Notable Books for Children, 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults, and the 2017 Odyssey Award Committees. In 2016 Roxanne was one of the three judges for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. You can reach her at at roxannefeldman@gmail.com.
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Leonard Kim says
It looks like Front Desk actually won? And Book of Boy is >20.
Roxanne Hsu Feldman says
This just to show you how one makes mistakes in haste! CONGRATS to FRONT DESK!!!!
I updated/corrected the info. Thanks Leonard, eagle eye!
samuel leopold says
Excellent choices!