November Nomination Results: Forty five potential Mock Newbery titles
The quest to find the 2025 Heavy Medal Mock Newbery winner continues as the second round of nominations closed last Saturday. Eleven new titles were nominated for a total of 45 Mock Newbery potentials. THE TENTH MISTAKE OF HANK HOOPERMAN leads the way, closely followed by LOUDER THAN HUNGER and OLIVETTI. I was pleasantly surprised with a few of the statistics including:
- OLIVETTI and THE WRONG WAY HOME led the way with six nominations each.
- Twelve new titles were nominated including three nominations for QUAGMIRE TIARELLO COULDN’T BE BETTER and ACROSS SO MANY SEAS.
- The highly anticipated THE BLETCHLEY RIDDLE, only received one nomination.
| THE TENTH MISTAKE OF HANK HOOPERMAN | Choldenko | 15 |
| LOUDER THAN HUNGER | Schu | 11 |
| OLIVETTI | Millington | 10 |
| ENIGMA GIRLS | Fleming | 9 |
| FERRIS | DiCamillo | 9 |
| THE FIRST STATE OF BEING | Kelly | 9 |
| AND THEN, BOOM! | Fipps | 8 |
| MAX IN THE HOUSE OF SPIES | Gidwitz | 7 |
| THE WRONG WAY HOME | O’Shaughnessy | 7 |
| THE COLOR OF SOUND | Barth-Isler | 6 |
| NOT QUITE A GHOST | Ursu | 6 |
| MAGNOLIA WU UNFOLDS IT ALL | Miller | 5 |
| KAREEM BETWEEN | Safadi | 4 |
| MID-AIR | Williams | 4 |
| PLAIN JANE AND THE MERMAID | Brosgol | 4 |
| TREE. TABLE. BOOK | Lowry | 4 |
| ACROSS SO MANY SEAS* | Behar | 3 |
| JUPITER RISING | Schmidt | 3 |
| KYRA, JUST FOR TODAY | Zarr | 3 |
| THE SECRET LIBRARY | Magoon | 3 |
| QUAGMIRE TIARELLO COULDN’T BE BETTER* | Larsen | 3 |
| THE HOUSE BEFORE FALLING INTO THE SEA | Wang | 2 |
| I’M FROM HERE, TOO | Sheth | 2 |
| NOT NOTHING* | Forman | 2 |
| SONA AND THE GOLDEN BEASTS | LaRocca | 2 |
| WHAT IS COLOR | Weinberg | 2 |
| ALL ABOUT U.S. | Lamothe and Volovski | 1 |
| BLACK STAR | Alexander | 1 |
| BLACK GIRL, YOU ARE ATLAS* | Watson | 1 |
| THE BLETCHLEY RIDDLE* | Sepetys & Sheinkin | 1 |
| BUFFALO DREAMER* | Duncan | 1 |
| DEER RUN HOME* | LeZotte | 1 |
| THE HOTEL BALZAAR* | DiCamillo | 1 |
| HOW IT ALL ENDS* | Hunsinger | 1 |
| THE LAST APPLE TREE | Mills | 1 |
| LIGHT AND AIR | Wendell | 1 |
| LUNAR NEW YEAR LOVE STORY | Yang | 1 |
| MANILLA SEMILLA FINDS HER QUETZAL VOICE* | Lapera | 1 |
| MEDUSA | Marsh | 1 |
| THE NIGHT WAR | Bradley | 1 |
| ONE BIG OPEN SKY | Cline-Ransome | 1 |
| SHARK TEETH* | Winston | 1 |
| SPIRIT SLEUTHS | Jarrow | 1 |
| A STRANGE THING HAPPENED IN CHERRY HALL | Warga | 1 |
| THE WITCHING WIND* | Lloyd | 1 |
Filed under: 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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So are the columns:
Title, author, total noms, October noms, November noms, December noms? I’m just trying to figure out what all the numbers actually mean.
Thanks.
oops editing this to make more sense now!
What do the asterisks mean? (Also, I wonder if not many people have read The Bletchley Riddle yet…) Thank you!
The asterisk means it’s a new nomination this month