Call for April Mock Newbery Suggestions
It’s time to share April suggestions as part of the Heavy Medal Mock Newbery process. A month ago, our first round of suggestions got us started with a starting list of 13 titles. As the list of 2022 publications grows, we’ll build this list by soliciting suggestions from readers every month. Details about how suggestions work are in Steven’s March post; here are a couple of key reminders:
- Only books that have been published are eligible. If you’re read an Advanced Reader’s Copy, you will just need to wait until its publication date to suggest it for this blog. We open suggestions for one week on the first Monday of each month.
- It’s okay to suggest titles that others have already selected. That gives us a good sense of which books are connecting with the most readers. But you can only suggest and individual title once during the year.
- We limit suggestions to five titles per month. Less is fine too. The real Newbery Committee typically does not limit the number, but we’re doing it here just to keep things manageable.
Please add your suggestions for April in the comments below between now and Sunday, April 10th. We’ll publish the updated list on April 11th.
Filed under: Heavy Medal Mock, Suggestions
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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DREAM, ANNIE, DREAM by Waka T. Brown
LOVE IN THE LIBRARY by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves by L.M. Elliott
1. I Must Betray You, by Ruta Sepetys.
2. Ain’t BUrned All the Bright, by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin.
3. The Ogress and the Orphans, by Kelly Barnhill.
4. Bare Tree and Little Wind, by Mitali Perkins.
THE OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS br Kelly Barnhill
I MUST BETRAY YOU by Ruta Sepetys
LOUISA JUNE AND THE NAZIS IN THE WAVES by L.M. Elliott
ALIAS ANNA: A TRUE STORY OF OUTWITTING THE NAZIS by Susan Hood
AFRICAN TOWN by Irene Latham and Charles Water
So many good books already!!! I have more to suggest, but I will have to wait until next month =)
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
At The End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp
The Red Palace by June Hur
Lawless Spaces by Corey Ann Haydu
Vinyl Moon by Mahogany L. Browne
This is my first time commenting! I can’t wait to see this list grow.
1. A Comb of Wishes by Lisa Stringfellow
2. Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
3. Solimar by Pam Munoz Ryan
Air by Monica Roe
I MUST BETRAY YOU by Ruta Sepetys
NEW FROM HERE by Kelly Yang
THE OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS by Kelly Barnhill
New From Here by Kelly Yang
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
DREAM ANNIE DREAM, Brown
A COMB OF WISHES, Stringfellow
THE UNFORGETTABLE LOGAN FOSTER, Peters
Oops, thought I did this once last month, but I didn’t.
EACH OF US A UNIVERSE, Ferruolo
Alias Anna by Susan Good with Greg Dawson, Those Kids From Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly, and New From Here Kelly Yang.
Typo Susan “Hood”
SOLIMAR by Pam Munoz Ryan
NEW FROM HERE by K.Yang
im here b4 the bell
OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS
TO THE FRONT by Claudia Friddell
GIBBERISH by Young Vo