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November 8, 2020 by Steven Engelfried

Mock-Newbery Nominations List: 43 titles to consider (so far…)

November 8, 2020 by Steven Engelfried   2 comments

Our November Nomination period is closed, and the results are listed below: 43 books that Heavy Medal readers have identified as the strongest Newbery Medal contenders so far this year.

The tallies divide up fairly neatly. We’ve got eight titles with six or more nominations. After that, there are sixteen more with two, three, or four nominations. And another nineteen with just one. Seven of the top nine, including the four with the most nominations, are from authors who have won a Newbery Medal or Honor previously.

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This nomination list, which will be finalized in early December, will help us develop the Heavy Medal Book List; this consists of 10-15 titles to be thoroughly discussed and voted upon until we emerge with our Heavy Medal Mock Newbery Winner.

We’ll be opening up “December” nominations in late November. That earlier date allows us to create our final Book List in a timely manner, with input from readers. So keep reading! The current nomination list below is a great titles source, but we also have some interesting new releases that aren’t on our list yet. Will THE ENIGMA GAME or RETURN OF THE THIEF make a late appearance? Is there a sleeper out there that we haven’t yet discovered? Stay tuned…

TitleAuthorTotal
Echo MountainWolk14
Fighting WordsBradley10
List of Things That Will Not ChangeStead9
When Stars are ScatteredJamieson9
Show Me a SignLezotte8
When You Trap a TigerKeller8
Prairie LotusPark6
We Dream of SpaceKelly6
Becoming Muhammed AliAlexander4
King and the DragonfliesCallender4
Leaving LymonCline-Ransome4
Wish in the DarkSoontornvat4
Blackbird GirlsBlankman3
Everything Sad is UntrueNayeri3
Game of Fox and SquirrelsReese3
Before the Ever AfterWoodson2
Ceiling Made of EggshellsLevine2
From the Desk of Zoe WashingtonMarks2
Kent StateWiles2
MañanalandRyan2
Many Feathered ThingGerlits2
Rise and Fall of Charles LindberghFleming2
SnapdragonLeyh2
Summer We Found the BabyHest2
All ThirteenSoontornvat1
Almost American Girl: A MemoirHa1
Black Brother, Black BrotherRhodes1
ChanceShulevitz1
ChirpMessner1
Clap When You LandAcevedo1
Class ActCraft1
Dragon HoopsYang1
Here in the Real WorldPennypacker1
On the HorizonLowry1
Place at the TableFaruqi1
Princess in Black and the Giant ProblemHale1
Skunk and BadgerTimberlake1
StampedReynolds1
StrongmanDavis1
Three KeysYang1
Village of ScoundrelsPreus1
Way BackSavit1
Who Gives a PoopMontgomery1

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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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  1. Meredith says

    November 9, 2020 at 1:05 pm

    This is such a wonderful list! I read Everything Sad is Untrue last week, and it was incredible! So many other excellent titles, too. Keep up the outstanding work.

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