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 |
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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