It’s the Final Suggestions
The fun begins NEXT WEEK when we launch our 2023 Mock Newbery discussion on Heavy Medal. Now, we need to finish up our reading list by asking for our final five suggestions of possible contenders.
Please still keep to five suggestions and only books that have already been published. No worries, we still have nominations in October, November and December- so we can still talk about new books! The official committee continues suggestions to the end of the year, but that gets a bit too complicated for our blog.
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More information about how suggestions work can be found on this post from earlier this year. You can check this post for the list of suggestions so far; it’s fine to suggest titles that are already on the list.
We invite all readers to submit your September suggestions as well between now and Saturday, September 3rd. We’ll share the updated list on Monday, September 5th.
Filed under: 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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Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jason Griffin
Those Kids From Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly
Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino
The Midnight Children, by Dan Gemeinhart.
The Passport Project: Two Sisters Ditch Middle School for a Life-Changing Journey Around the World by Kellie McIntyre. I can’t wait to share this with my students!!
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The Passport Project: Two Sisters Ditch Middle School for a Life-Changing Journey Around the World by Kellie McIntyre
AFRICAN TOWN by Waters
AND WE RISE by Martin
THOSE KIDS FROM FAWN CREEK by Entrada Kelly
THE LAST MAPMAKER by Soontornvat
LOUISA JUNE AND THE NAZIS IN THE WAVES by Elliott
Healer and Witch by Nancy Werlin
I Must Betray You
How to Build a Human
Yonder Ali Standish
Marshmallow Clouds (Kooser/Wanek)
Augusta Savage (Nelson)
I Must Betray You (Sepetys)
Little Houses (Henkes)
Berry Song (Goade)
The Ogress and the Orphans
Big Rig
Invisible
these Suggestions are on behalf of Carol E who e-mailed me
Healer and Witch by Nancy Werlin
Patron Thief of Bread by Lindsay Eager
Little Monarchs by Jonathan Case
Aint Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds
Ain’t Burned All the Bright
The Last Mapmaker
The Last Beekeeper
Different Kinds of Fruit
Jennifer Chan is Not Alone
OK, so these are the four that when I look at our suggestions with are still sticking with me as high quality and suggestable! Writing on behalf of myself lol.
Those Kids From Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly
Solimar by Pam Munoz Ryan
Cress, Watercress by Greg Maguire
Turtle of Michigan by Naomi Shihab Nye
Answers in the Pages / David Levithan
Golden Girl / Reem Faruqi
My Life Begins / Patricia MacLachlan
The Sheep, the Rooster and the Duck / Matt Phelan
The Star That Always Stays / Anna Rose Johnson
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer
The Woman who Split the Atom by Marissa Moss
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller
Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe