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 was the Library Services Manager at the Wilsonville Public Library in Oregon until he retired in 2022 after 35 years as a full-time librarian. 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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