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
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