Newbery Suggestions: 61 Books to Consider
Heavy Medal readers posted suggestions for 50 more potentially Newbery-worthy titles. Our running list now includes over 200 Suggestions spread out among 61 books. And these are only the books published through mid-July, 2020. Our next call for Suggestions will go out on August 3rd. Meanwhile, the reading list keeps getting better and longer. Updated totals are below:
| Title | Author | Total |
| List of Things That Will Not Change | Stead | 12 |
| Prairie Lotus | Park | 12 |
| Show Me a Sign | Lezotte | 12 |
| When You Trap a Tiger | Keller | 11 |
| King and the Dragonflies | Callender | 9 |
| Echo Mountain | Wolk | 8 |
| Efrén Divided | Cisneros | 8 |
| From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Marks | 8 |
| Mañanaland | Ryan | 7 |
| One and Only Bob | Applegate | 6 |
| Almost American Girl: A Memoir | Ha | 5 |
| Black Brother, Black Brother | Rhodes | 5 |
| On the Horizon | Lowry | 5 |
| Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh | Fleming | 5 |
| Dragon Hoops | Yang | 4 |
| Here in the Real World | Pennypacker | 4 |
| Snapdragon | Leyh | 4 |
| We Dream of Space | Kelly | 4 |
| When Stars are Scattered | Jamieson | 4 |
| Wish in the Dark | Soontornvat | 4 |
| Chirp | Messner | 3 |
| Home for Godesses and Dogs | Connor | 3 |
| Stand Up, Yumi Chung! | Kim | 3 |
| Ways to Make Sunshine | Watson | 3 |
| All the Days Past, All the Days to Come | Taylor | 2 |
| Any Day with You | Respicio | 2 |
| Black is a Rainbow Color | Joy | 2 |
| Blackbird Girls | Blankman | 2 |
| Clean Getaway | Stone | 2 |
| Coo | Noel | 2 |
| Leaving Lymon | Cline-Ransome | 2 |
| One Last Shot | Anderson | 2 |
| Only Black Girls in Town | Colbert | 2 |
| Prettiest | Young | 2 |
| Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe | Hernandez | 2 |
| Thief Knot | Milford | 2 |
| Things You Can’t Say | Bishop | 2 |
| Village of Scoundrels | Preus | 2 |
| Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom | Sachar | 2 |
| American as Pioneer Pie | Kelkar | 1 |
| Field Guide to Getting Lost | McCullough | 1 |
| Game of Foxes and Squirrels | Reese | 1 |
| Go with the Flow | Williams & Shchneemann | 1 |
| Great Upending | Kephart | 1 |
| How to Make Friends with the Sea | Guerrero | 1 |
| How Women Won the Vote | Bartoletti | 1 |
| Into the Tal, Tall Grass | Ryon | 1 |
| Kent State | Wiles | 1 |
| Many Feathered Thing | Gerlits | 1 |
| Nonsense! The Curious Story of Edward Gorey | Mortensen | 1 |
| Not Your All-American Girl | Rosenberg & Shang | 1 |
| Once Upon an Eid | Ali, et al | 1 |
| Ordinary Day | Arnold | 1 |
| Our Friend Hedgehog: the Story of Us | Castillo | 1 |
| Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Reynold & Kendi | 1 |
| Things Seen from Above | Pearsall | 1 |
| Voice Named Aretha | Russell-Brown | 1 |
| We are Water Protectors | Lindstrom | 1 |
| What Lane | Maldonado | 1 |
| What Stars are Made of | Allen | 1 |
| Wink | Harrell | 1 |
Filed under: Heavy Medal Mock, Process
About Steven Engelfried
Steven Engelfried retired from full-time library work a couple years ago and now works as a part-time Youth Librarian at the West Linn Public Library in Oregon. He served on the 2010 Newbery committee, chaired the 2013 Newbery Committee, and also served on the 2002 Caldecott committee. You can reach him at sengelfried@yahoo.com.
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