Newbery 2011 Thoughts

Ok, So after joining Facebook, this little blogging experiment has, well, almost died. However, I will go ahead and, once again this year, post my Newbery thoughts before the big awards.

My Top 10 favorites for the 2011 Newbery Award

• Mirror, Mirror, Singer, Marilyn
• Moon over Manifest JF Vanderpool, Clare
• A Conspiracy of Kings, YA Turner, Megan Whalen
• One Crazy Summer, JF Williams-Garcia, Rita
• The Candymakers, JF Mass, Wendy
• Turtle in Paradise, JF Holm, Jenny
• Out of My Mind, Draper, Sharon
• Scumble, JF Law, Ingrid
• Drizzle, Van Cleve, Kathleen
• Woods Runner, Paulsen, Gary

With only a little bit of Mock Newbery buzz to its credit, Moon Over Manifest is my favorite for an upset, surprise win. One Crazy Summer is the current favorite among the kidlitosphere.

I will admit that I focused almost exclusively this year on fiction, so there is a decent chance that a NF title could win and upset all my efforts. And, if we are going on the trend, only broken last year, that the winner was an author I somehow unwittingly insulted over the past year - our winner will probably be The Night Fairy by Laura Schlitz, as I assisted her at a booksigning table earlier this year and yet didn't buy the book, even though I had read it.

Ok, in case anyone is (still) reading, while I read over 125 eligible titles, here are my Top 50 2010 books that I've read and think have at least a long-shot at the Newbery Award in January 2011, in order that I read them.

• Woods Runner, YA Paulsen, Gary
• The Death-Defying Pepper Roux, JF McCaughrean, Geraldine
• Out of My Mind, YA Draper, Sharon
• Mirror, Mirror, Singer, Marilyn
• Finally, JF Mass, Wendy
• A Conspiracy of Kings, Turner, Megan Whalen
  
• Star in the Forest, JF Resau, Laura
• The Dreamer, JF Ryan, Pam Munoz & Peter Sis
• Alchemy and Meggy Swann, JF Cushman, Karen
• One Crazy Summer, JF Williams-Garcia, Rita
• Crunch, YA Connor, Leslie
• The Cardturner, YA Sachar, Louis
• Scumble, JF Law, Ingrid
• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, JF/YA Angelberger, Tom
• Turtle in Paradise, JF Holm, Jenny
• The Candymakers, JF Mass, Wendy
• Reckless, JF Funke, Cornelia
• The Night Fairy, JF Schlitz, Laura Amy
• Countdown, JF Wiles, Deborah
• As Simple as It Seems, JF Weeks, Sarah
• The Birthday Ball, JF Lowry, Lois
• Revolution, YA Donnelly, Jennifery (more Printz, but I loved it too much to leave off)
• Touch Blue, JF Lord, Cynthia
• Mockingbird, JF Erskine, Kathryn
• The Danger Box, JF Balliet, Blue
• After All, You're Callie Boone, JF Mack, Winnie
• Storyteller, JF Giff, Patricia Reilly
• Jake, JF Couloumbis, Audrey
• Drizzle, JF Van Cleve, Kathleen
• Penny Dreadful, YA Snyder, Laurel
• Keeper, JF Appelt, Kathy
• The Water Seeker, JF Holt, Kimberly Willis
• Falling In, JF Dowell, Frances O'Roarke
• As Easy as Falling Off the Earth, YA Perkins
• Palace Beautiful, YA Williams
• The Year Money Grew on Trees , JF Hawkins, Aaron
• The Wonder of Charlie Anne JF Fusco, Kimberly Newton
• Moon over Manifest JF Vanderpool, Clare
• A Nest for Celeste Cole, Henry
• The Memory Bank Coman, Carolyn
• SPHDZ Book #1! Scieszka, Jon
• What Happened on Fox Street Springstubb, Tricia
• This Means War Wittlinger, Ellen
• Kyle's Island Derby, Sally
• Best Friends Forever: A WWII Scrapbook Patt, Beverly
• Finding Family: a novel Bolden, Tonya
• The Kneebone Boy JF Potter, Ellen
• A Finders-Keepers Place Leal, Ann Haywood
• Magic Below Stairs JF Stevermer, Caroline
• Edison's Gold JF Watson, Geoff
• Zora and Me Jf Bond, Victoria and T.R. Simon
• The Other Half of My Heart JF Frazier, Sundee
• The War to End All Wars, Freedman, Russell

Other hopes:

• Caldecott - Bink & Gollie
• CSK Author -The Other Half of My Heart by Frazier
  
• CSK Illustrator - Dave the Potter illus. by Bryan Collier
  
• Printz - Revolution
• Sibert - Ubiquitus or The War to End All Wars
• Geisel - We Are In A Book