Politics in Practice
December 4, 2024 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci
Save the date for our 2025 Mock Newbery webcast Friday Jan 24th at 1 pm EST.
December 2, 2024 by Steven Engelfried
The December Nomination period is now open. It's the last chance for Heavy Medal readers to identify two more titles that could be contenders for the 2025 Newbery Medal. Nominate your two books by December 7th.
November 29, 2024 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci
With only one nomination period left, now is the time to convince readers to give specific titles a second (or first) look.
November 25, 2024 by Steven Engelfried
Our list of nominations for the Heavy Medal Mock Newbery includes 19 books (out of 45) that have received just one vote so far. Which ones (if any) have a real chance to earn Newbery recognition?
November 22, 2024 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci
Emily: In September, we introduced a Friday series about Notable Newbery authors and kicked off a Newbery Authors Poll, which is still open. In October we discussed the “powerhouse” Newbery authors. This month we thought it might be fun to focus on authors who have not won a Newbery Medal, including those who have won […]
November 20, 2024 by Steven Engelfried
This week's "Wednesday Roundup" looks at the many excellent titles from this year that fall into the broad and often-recognized category of middle grade fiction.
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November 18, 2024 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci
With so many excellent books on our Mock Newbery list, we need to really look at what books stand out. Today we do an exercise called "Battle of the Books" where we pin two books against each other.
November 15, 2024 by Steven Engelfried
With so many excellent books on our Mock Newbery list, how do we separate the very good from the truly great? One exercise that might help: the "Fortunately/Unfortunately" game.
November 13, 2024 by Steven Engelfried
We've picked 6! The "Early 6" are titles that we've selected to be part of our Mock Newbery Book List. We'll eventually have about 15 titles on that list, but here's your chance to get started early with reading.
November 11, 2024 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci
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.
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