Five Word Friday: Nominations in 5 Words or Less
Let’s have some fun today and play a game where Emily tries to sum up all 36 nominations in five words or less. I was going to be nice and list the titles but decided it would be more fun if you guessed! Don’t like my five word roundup? Put your own in the comments! But remember, FIVE WORDS OR LESS!
- Secret Society siblings SAY WHAT?
- When unconventional friendships conquer obstacles
- Greediness grabs the special jars
- Colored pencils and index cards…
- Destiny, drama, and darn demigods
- Bringing truth into body image
- We’re not in Kansas anymore (sorry couldn’t resist)
- Double life but quadruple sadness
- Small plant memories old and new
- Chicago’s final point of view
- Shadowy secrets change the world
- Peter Pan’s seen nothing yet!
- History reduxed… the third time
- Electricity equals a new world
- Deep roots create new mysticism
- Past, present, future. Equals us
- Medieval feline makes history books
- Wild stories help hard times
- Fifteen individuals create one tale
- Family and friendship meet gender identity
- Boy conquers the first grade
- A boy, a quest, and a pony
- Families exist on outer space
- If you could go back….
- It’s because of the goat
- Magically bring the bullies down!
- Mischievous girls rule the world
- Together come love grief & imagination
- Not another rich orphan story?
- She believed, she persevered, she escaped
- Is excitement a worthwhile wish?
- Holy beings come to heal
- Once upon a racist time
- Deep inside the sneaky standoff
- Ghosts get the truth out
Whoever guesses the most correct wins a special prize from Steven (JK, LOL). And give me your own five-word descriptions. We can have movie tag lines ready to go!
Filed under: Book Discussion, Nominations
About Emily Mroczek-Bayci
Emily Mroczek (Bayci) is a freelance children’s librarian in the Chicago suburbs. She served on the 2019 Newbery committee. You can reach her at emilyrmroczek@gmail.com.
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This is way harder than I thought it would be. Reminds me that I need to read more from the nominations list. Also I learned that Emily is a tricky puzzle creator.
I decided to start slow and try to find my own top 5 (for today anyway…it changes) among books nominated so far:
5. AMBER & CLAY
18. PITY PARTY (I think…?)
19. THE RACONTEUR’S COMMONPLACE BOOK
21. HARRY VS. THE FIRST 100 DAYS
34. FALLOUT (not sure…?)
Here are my best guesses:
1. AMARI AND THE NIGHT BROTHERS
2. JUST LIKE THAT ??
3. ONE JAR OF MAGIC ??
4. FLIGHT OF THE PUFFIN
5. AMBER & CLAY
6. STARFISH
7. WHILE I WAS AWAY
8. RED, WHITE & WHOLE
9. WATERCRESS
10. BEING CLEM
11. FRANKIE & BUG ??
12. SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA
13. STAMPED (FOR KIDS) ??
14. 365 DAYS TO ALASKA
15. ROOT MAGIC
16. FINDING JUNIE KIM ??
17. DA VINCI’S CAT
18. PITY PARTY
19. RACONTEUR’S COMMONPLACE BOOK
20. TOO BRIGHT TO SEE
21. HARRY VS. THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL
22. PONY
23. LION OF MARS
24. SHAPE OF THUNDER
25. THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY
26. THE LEGEND OF AUNTIE PO ??
27. THE TROUBLED GIRLS OF DRAGOMIR ACADEMY ??
28. KALEIDOSCOPE ??
29. A PLACE TO HANG THE MOON ??
30. RUNAWAY: THE DARING ESCAPE OF ONA JUDGE
31. BILLY MILLER MAKES A WISH
32. HEALER OF THE WATER MONSTER
33. UNSPEAKABLE: THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE
34. FALLOUT
35. OPHIE’S GHOST
I understand the number 18 as Pity Party logic… but nope!
Steven was right for the other four and Rox Anne you did superb, only 30/35 missing 11, 18, 20, 26, 35
#18 is THE LEGEND OF AUNTIE PO
# 35 is TOO BRIGHT TO SEE
That leaves 11, 20, and 26. I guess that must be OPHIE, FRANKIE, and PITY respectively.
Teamwork makes the dream work! Good job everyone! Now I’m waiting patiently for everyone else’s 5 word tag lines…. lolol
I’ll see how I can do with one at a time:
River’s rising….Let’s tell stories!
Raconteur’s Common place!!
and dancin’ in the rain
(I am taking a slight liberty here as the dancers are not “in” the rain the way Gene Kelly was.)
Is my dad a crook?
PONY??
Yes, that one’s PONY. I’m actually just halfway through the book, though, so I don’t actually know if Silas’ dad really is the counterfeiter or not. Will find out soon…
Dang! He killed off Holling.
What is lewd about Grapes?
just like that… but grapes, leonard? you’ve got me there!
“I thought I would read Grapes of Wrath,” she said. Mrs. Connolly did this thing with her nose, breathing in quickly as if in great suffering. “John Steinbeck,” she said, “is a lewd writer. No student of mine who hopes to develop taste and discernment would ever read anything by that Communist.” (62)
And even though she knew she should be looking for an appropriate and not lewd author for Mrs. Connolly, she did want to read The Grapes of Wrath. . . . she quickly thumbed through to see if she could find the lewd parts. She couldn’t. (66)
she was on her second reading of The Grapes of Wrath–she hadn’t found the lewd parts on the first (75)
“Aren’t you still reading The Grapes of Wrath? . . . . It is my favorite novel.” . . . . “What about the lewd parts?” “Are there any?” she said. “I think so” . . . “Let me know when you find them.” (98)
she took out The Grapes of Wrath, which she was reading for the third time–because if there was anything lewd, she’d missed it entirely. What she’d found instead was one beautiful thing after another. (223)
“If there is a flaw in this splendid book,” she said, “it’s that Tom leaves the narrative action before he should. I don’t think it’s lewd, but one should never leave the narrative action before he should.” (323)
Even just reading these isolated sentences, I think I am going to have to nominate this next month.
JUST LIKE THAT
ooooooooooooooooo duhhh
Guinea pigs are actually cool.
HARRY VS. THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL
correct!
We’d better hope somebody blinks.
We didn’t start the fire
Very good, Leonard! Maybe we should give extra points for pop music references.
Port Chicago affects Chicago boy
Finding Clem!
The Return of the King
THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY
James and the giant huh?
Believing, clapping hands not needed
SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA
Correct!
Never mind if Queen Mab and their fellow winged ones didn’t believe in her.
Never mind if Peter hadn’t believed in her.
Never mind if *you* there, reading this story book, don’t believe in Fairies at all.
. . . .
Because Belle of Neverland believed in herself. (270)
This wardrobe doesn’t visit Narnia
DA VINCI’S CAT
Yes!
Mermaid with a bejeweled tail
BEATRYCE PROPHECY?
YES!
The best pies for miles
I feed lumberjacks, I’m OK.
THE LEGEND OF AUNTIE PO. I should have got it with Rox Anne’s clue, but I needed Leonard’s too. Both excellent.
Monty Python LOL
Dad’s magical. Maybe I’m not.
One jar of magic!!!
Yes, that’s ONE JAR
Includes yet another ghost story
uhh can this be so many? LOL