October Nominations Total



Our first round of nominations on Heavy Medal is now closed. The results are below. No clear leaders at this point. With twenty-six readers submitting nominations, no book received more than eight. We also have several books with great potential that have just been published, so we’ll likely see more fall publications when we open up the second round of nominations on November 2nd.
Here’s the list so far:
Title | Author | Total |
When You Trap a Tiger | Keller | 8 |
Echo Mountain | Wolk | 6 |
Prairie Lotus | Park | 6 |
Fighting Words | Bradley | 5 |
List of Things That Will Not Change | Stead | 4 |
Show Me a Sign | Lezotte | 4 |
When Stars are Scattered | Jamieson | 4 |
Blackbird Girls | Blankman | 3 |
Game of Fox and Squirrels | Reese | 3 |
Wish in the Dark | Soontornvat | 3 |
From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Marks | 2 |
King and the Dragonflies | Callender | 2 |
Leaving Lymon | Cline-Ransome | 2 |
Many Feathered Thing | Gerlits | 2 |
Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh | Fleming | 2 |
Summer We Found the Baby | Hest | 2 |
Almost American Girl: A Memoir | Ha | 1 |
Becoming Muhammed Ali | Alexander | 1 |
Before the Ever After | Woodson | 1 |
Black Brother, Black Brother | Rhodes | 1 |
Ceiling Made of Eggshells | Levine | 1 |
Chance | Shulevitz | 1 |
Chirp | Messner | 1 |
Class Act | Craft | 1 |
Dragon Hoops | Yang | 1 |
Everything Sad is Untrue | Nayeri | 1 |
Here in the Real World | Pennypacker | 1 |
On the Horizon | Lowry | 1 |
Place at the Table | Faruqi | 1 |
Snapdragon | Leyh | 1 |
Stamped | Reynolds | 1 |
Three Keys | Yang | 1 |
We Dream of Space | Kelly | 1 |
Who Gives a Poop | Montgomery | 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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