Heavy Medal Mock Newbery – General Call for Suggestions
Thank you for all who have been talking to us via the Comments in the past week. Please continue engaging on book discussion posts in the coming weeks/months.
At this time, Steven, Annisha, and I would love to see more reader suggestions. Since we will start the official “nomination” process in a month or so, we are taking away the restriction of already published books. Any Heavy Medal reader who has access to great upcoming books, please suggest away. As long as you don’t repeat your own former suggestions, there is no limit of numbers of suggestions. Just keep them coming in the comments area — indicating that it’s a suggestion when you post so we can tally accordingly.
I am suggesting the following:
How High the Moon by Parsons
The Toll by Schusterman
Other Words for Home by Warga
Best Friends by Hale
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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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I’d like to suggest:
Lalani of the Distant Sea
For Black Girls Like Me
Downstairs Girl
My suggestions:
Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
I would suggest:
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Extraordinary Birds
Hurricane Season
*Lalani of the Distant Sea
*My Jasper June
And while I haven’t read it yet, I’m looking forward to Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds, which comes out next month.
My new suggestions:
The Miraculous by Jess Redman
My Jasper June by Laurel Snyder
My suggestions:
Best Friends by Shannon Hale
Changeling (The Oddmire #1) by William Ritter
Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker
I just have one:
SCARY STORIES FOR YOUNG FOXES by Christian McKay Heidicker
by Jess Redman
The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins, by Gail Shepherd
New Kid, by Jerry Craft
Queen of the Sea
For Black Girls Like Me
Suggesting My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
I’ll add another vote for LALANI and also I CAN MAKE THIS PROMISE by Christine Day, coming next month from Harper Collins.
I’m glad to see Lalani making the list. I was surprised it didn’t show up as much in the summer forecasting but it was a fall release so that’s probably why. I would also add a vote for New Kid. PLENTY on my TBR list right now; thanks for all of the suggestions!
I’ll add votes for
OTHER WORDS FOR HOME
BEST FRIENDS
THE REMARKABLE JOURNEY OF COYOTE SUNRISE (if I didn’t vote for it last time – I don’t think I did but am not positive)
ORDINARY GIRLS by Blair Thornburgh
(If there was still a Printz blog, I would nominate LOVE FROM A TO Z, by S.K. Ali.)
Genevieve – I love, love, love LOVE FROM A TO Z! If Ali was U.S. I would make a case for that for Newbery. I have taken it out to so many middle schools to great success.
In addition to my past suggestions, I would like to add…
Next Great Paulie Fink
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
I would like to suggest:
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary D. Schmidt
Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers by Celia C. Perez
Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya
Some of my top favorites this year:
The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins, Gail Shepherd
A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Ramee
The Bridge Home, Padma Venkatramen
Hurricane Season, Nicole Melleby
All of Me, Chris Baron
Pay Attention Carter Jones, Gary Schmidt
I am Suggesting
BEVERLY, RIGHT HERE by Kate DiCamillo
“I’ve misplaced my capabilities<" is my mantra from this point forward.
Adding:
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (I thought this was going to be all dark and old YA, but it totally should have been published as MG.)
I tend to agree. It’s not that YA.
ANTHEM by Deborah Wiles
My suggestion is The Miraculous by Jess Redman.
So beautiful.
Another vote for The Miraculous by Jess Redman.