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Posts by Emily Mroczek-Bayci
The Stakes Have Risen: It’s Nomination Season
It's time to nominate! Select your top three children's books of the year and add them to our October nominations list. The nominations list will reveal which books Heavy Medal readers support most strongly as Newbery Medal contenders. We'll add to the list in November and December, but for now, submit your October three by October 8th.
#Readmore #Readsmarter How are we doing? What are we missing?
Now that the suggestion period is closed, let's take a look if there are any gaps or areas that are missing in our 2023 Newbery contenders.
Newbery Criteria Deep Dive: Delineation of Characters
Today we look deeper at one of the six Newbery criteria pieces: delineation of characters and which 2023 contenders stand out most in this category.
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NBA Longlist vs. HM Longlist… Battle of the Awards?!
The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (YPL) last week. The Award works a bit differently than the Newbery. Publishers pay to submit titles, and a longlist, shortlist and winner is announced. There are separate panel committees for the different age groups. In 2021, 1,892 […]
Early Year Favorites: Ogresses, Betrayal and Love
Take a look at the results of our Heavy Medal beginning of the year check-in to see readers top titles for the 2023 Newbery so far this year.
Meet Steven & Emily: Your Heavy Medal Hosts
Learn a little about Emily and Steven, this year's Heavy Medal Bloggers, and tell them about yourself!
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It’s the Final Suggestions
It's the final round of Heavy Medal suggestions. Submit up to five titles already published in 2022 to add to our list.
And now there are 70 Heavy Medal Mock Newbery Suggestions
Seven new titles were suggested in August. The top three titles are very different genres (dual voices/verse, fantasy, historical) which doesn't happen very often.
Many May Suggestions: First Quarter Mock Newbery Possibilities
In a month of 47 titles suggested for the Heavy Medal Mock Newbery- Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? and The Last Mapmaker have made their way up the list.
Let’s Make Some May Suggestions!
We’re already in the month of MAY (don’t ask me how that happens!) And it is time for a new month of Heavy Medal suggestions. Details about how suggestions work are in Steven’s March post; but remember: No more than five suggestions, please save the rest for next month! (Less is fine too) Stick to […]
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