MORE 'HEAVY-MEDAL' POSTS
Donna Barbra Higuera won the 2022 Newbery Medal for THE LAST CUENTISTA. This year she published ALEBRIJES, a stand-alone companion to that earlier book. Will this imaginative dystopian fiction work earn a second Newbery Medal. We discuss its chances as part of our Heavy Medal Mock Newbery.
Author/Illustrator Dan Santat has already won a Caldecott Medal. Will his graphic novel A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING earn him Newbery recognition this year? It's now up for discussion as part of our Heavy Medal Mock Newbery.
Meet the 16 members of the 2024 Heavy Medal Award Committee. These book-loving volunteers will read and discuss all 16 titles on our Heavy Medal Book List, then choose our Mock Newbery winner in our live Zoom event on January 19th.
Our official Heavy Medal Mock Newbery discussions begin in January, with an intense 2+ weeks of in-depth book evaluation and debate. The Heavy Medal Award Committee members will lead the process, but all readers are welcome to join in. Here's our full schedule of book titles and discussion dates.
In a couple weeks we'll begin discussing the 16 books on our Heavy Medal Book List. Some great books were left off of that list, though...will one of them wind up winning the Newbery Medal?
As we move into our next phase of Heavy Medal discussions, today is the last day to submit applications for the Heavy Medal Award Committee and tomorrow is the final day to vote in our last Debating Decades poll. We now move into our next phase of Heavy Medal discussions where we focus on one […]
How do the Best Books of the Year lists from children's book review journals compare to our list of top Newbery contenders?
Help us finalize our Heavy Medal Book List by taking our "Narrow-It-Down Poll." Your votes on this year's possible Newbery Medal contenders will help us develop our final Mock Newbery list of 12-15 titles.
Last year's Newbery Medal book, FREEWATER, was written by a debut author. Could it happen again? Our Wednesday Round-Up looks at possible Newbery contenders by first-time authors.
Now is the time to submit your final nominations for the 2024 Heavy Medal Mock Newbery Award.
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