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Tag: Newbery 2024

September 22, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

Friday Exercise: Take backs allowed. #NotsoNewbery

In today's Friday Exercise. we take a look at what suggestions we don't think quite fit the Newbery field.

September 19, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

Coming Soon (Tomorrow) Wednesday Roundups

Starting Wednesday Sept. 20th, we will focus on certain types of books on Wednesdays. View the schedule in this post.

September 18, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

First Impressions aren’t always right: or are they? Beginning of the year 2024 Mock Newbery Survey Results

Thank you to the 34 people who answered our Beginning of the Year Survey! It was very interesting to see people’s thoughts as we entered the year. These survey results will also guide Steven and I’s postings as we discuss throughout the year. You can view the pie chart results below (I love my pie […]

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How are we doing? Heavy Medal 2024 By the Numbers

September 13, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

Today we look at the 2024 suggestions by the numbers breaking down into ages, genres and categories.

Let’s Get This Party Started: Think about early favorites and take our “Beginning of the Year Check-In” Survey

September 11, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

To start off our Heavy Medal Mock Newbery season, Steven and I wrote back and forth about the books we’ve read and the books we’re looking forward to reading. Please join us with your own thoughts in the comment section below, and also be sure to take our Beginning of the Year Check-In survey as well, where you can vote for your own early favorites by genre.

Welcome to Heavy Medal, 2024 Edition

September 6, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

After compiling suggestions for the past six months, now is the time to finally start year 16 of Mock Newbery Discussions. Here’s a rough summary of what’s in store on this blog for the next five months.

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Who Will Win? 86 Mock Newbery 2024 Suggestions

September 4, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

We officially concluded our suggestion period on Heavy Medal. Over the past seven months readers suggested 86 2024 Newbery eligible titles. This suggestion list will guide our blog posts and discussions through the rest of the year. Starting in October, readers can nominate books that they strongly believe are Newbery contenders (more on that Wednesday). […]

Add to Our Mock Newbery List: August Suggestions are Now Open

August 1, 2023 by Steven Engelfried

Read any Newbery contenders lately? Maybe a great collection of funny poems? Or a sequel to an all-time favorite? Now's the time to add your suggestions to our running list of 2024 Mock Newbery candidates on Heavy Medal.

Favorites are showing: Heavy Medal’s Halfway List

July 10, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

With only four new titles suggested this month, Heavy Medal readers are starting to choose some favorites halfway through the publishing year. Will any of these titles win the 2024 Newbery Medal? Only time will tell.

And now there are 38: May Heavy Medal Mock Newbery Suggestions

May 8, 2023 by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

This month's Heavy Medal Mock Newbery suggestion round up brought a plethora (5) more suggestions for our now strong frontrunner SIMON SORT OF SAYS by Erin Bow, along with 14 new suggestions and love for early May publications THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY by Kate DiCamillo and A WORK IN PROGRESS by Jarrett Lerner.

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