In exactly one month, the Newbery award winners will be announced. I still have a good number of books to read! Thanks to Betsy Bird at Fuse #8 for putting together a tally of the mock Newbery lists so far! I’ve read a good number of them so far:
- The Postcard by Tony Abbot
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (current read-aloud with my class!)
- The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (the last read-aloud for my class)
- Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume
- A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
- Hate That Cat: A Novel by Sharon Creech
- Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell
- Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
- Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Grow by Juanity Havill
- Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse
- Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
- The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
- Every Soul A Star by Wendy Mass
- Clementine’s Letter by Sara Pennypacker
- Six Innings by James Preller
- Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt
I’m pretty impressed with the reading I have done so far! Of course, I have a good deal left to do. And everyday I read about another book that I just have to read before the awards are announced. So here’s to lots of reading in the next few weeks!
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