Newbery Suggestions Updated

The call for Heavy Medal Mock Newbery Suggestions is closed…for now. As of today, we’ve received 236 suggestions for contending titles, with a total of 70 books on the list so far, including 9 titles appearing for the first time (in red). The next round of Suggestions will open up at the beginning of September. And right after that we will begin more in-depth discussion of many of these excellent books from the list below.
Title | Author | Total |
Show Me a Sign | Lezotte | 15 |
List of Things That Will Not Change | Stead | 13 |
When You Trap a Tiger | Keller | 13 |
Prairie Lotus | Park | 12 |
Echo Mountain | Wolk | 10 |
From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Marks | 10 |
King and the Dragonflies | Callender | 10 |
Efrén Divided | Cisneros | 9 |
Mañanaland | Ryan | 7 |
One and Only Bob | Applegate | 6 |
Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh | Fleming | 6 |
When Stars are Scattered | Jamieson | 6 |
Almost American Girl: A Memoir | Ha | 5 |
Black Brother, Black Brother | Rhodes | 5 |
Dragon Hoops | Yang | 5 |
On the Horizon | Lowry | 5 |
Snapdragon | Leyh | 5 |
Ways to Make Sunshine | Watson | 5 |
Wish in the Dark | Soontornvat | 5 |
Clean Getaway | Stone | 4 |
Here in the Real World | Pennypacker | 4 |
Home for Godesses and Dogs | Connor | 4 |
We Dream of Space | Kelly | 4 |
Blackbird Girls | Blankman | 3 |
Chirp | Messner | 3 |
Stand Up, Yumi Chung! | Kim | 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 |
Coo | Noel | 2 |
Game of Fox and Squirrels | Reese | 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 |
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Reynold & Kendi | 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 Paneer Pie | Kelkar | 1 |
Brave Like That | Stoddard | 1 |
Cast Away | Nye | 1 |
Ceiling Made of Eggshells | Levine | 1 |
Clap When You Land | Acevedo | 1 |
Doodleville | Sell | 1 |
Field Guide to Getting Lost | McCullough | 1 |
Fighting Words | Bradley | 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 Tall, Tall Grass | Ryon | 1 |
Itch | Farquhar | 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 |
Quintessence | Redman | 1 |
Things Seen from Above | Pearsall | 1 |
Turtle Boy | Wolkenstein | 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 |
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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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