tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36908049602934533262024-03-13T16:42:48.099-04:00ACPL Mock NewberyThis blog is brought to you by the Children's Services department of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. If you have something to say about a title on this blog, just add your comments to the blog post for that title. You can add your own title to the discussion by emailing the title and your comments to Mary Voors at mvoors@acpl.info. We look forward to a GREAT year of discussion!Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425130370380633997noreply@blogger.comBlogger373125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-52421816013344946202013-09-08T22:08:00.001-04:002013-09-08T22:08:19.088-04:00We've Moved Again!Please visit us at <a href="http://pinterest.com/allencountylib/" target="_blank">ACPL's new Pinterest page</a> where there is a <a href="http://pinterest.com/allencountylib/2014-mock-newbery/" target="_blank">Board</a> devoted to Mock Newbery 2014 books.<br />
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If you are interested in Mock Newbery programs or enjoy reading high quality children's books, we would love love love to have you follow <a href="http://pinterest.com/allencountylib/2014-mock-newbery/" target="_blank">this board</a>, and comment & "like" the books pinned there.<br /><br />
We look forward to seeing you at our <a href="http://pinterest.com/allencountylib/2014-mock-newbery/" target="_blank">new Pinterest board</a>!Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425130370380633997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-56411396499599534942012-04-11T15:39:00.000-04:002012-04-11T15:39:14.995-04:00We've Moved!Please visit us at ACPL's new kids' blog, <a href="http://acplkid.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b>One Book, Two Books, Old Books, New Books</b></a>. <br />
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Find our latest Mock Newbery nominees by selecting "Mock Newbery" in the drop down category box on the right-hand side of the <a href="http://acplkid.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">new blog</a>.<br />
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Click <a href="http://acplkid.wordpress.com/category/mock-newbery/2013-mock-newbery-list/" target="_blank">here</a> to see the complete list of books -- updated weekly! -- we are considering for this year's ACPL's Mock Newbery.<br />
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We look forward to seeing you at our new blog!Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425130370380633997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-30528348474912178422012-01-28T09:07:00.000-05:002012-01-28T09:07:38.904-05:00And the REAL 2012 Newbery Winner Is....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2b-oUcKTdzg/TyP-mBqZJMI/AAAAAAAABTI/R6OLeE9qQSQ/s1600/dead+end+in+norvelt.aspx" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2b-oUcKTdzg/TyP-mBqZJMI/AAAAAAAABTI/R6OLeE9qQSQ/s1600/dead+end+in+norvelt.aspx" /></a></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ppf-frp1LRQ/TyP-erEQHZI/AAAAAAAABTA/NRq2EgkrAY8/s1600/Inside+out+and+Back+Again.aspx" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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Two Newbery Honor Books were selected. They are:<br />
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Congratulations to all the winners. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a great year for Children's Books!</span></div>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425130370380633997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-66085916883471356152012-01-07T22:43:00.000-05:002012-01-08T10:44:56.242-05:002012 Mock Newbery Winner!After a full morning discussing thirty titles, it took only one ballot to arrive at a winner! The ACPL Mock Newbery winner for 2012 is...<br />
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What great fun! Now we'll all wait ever-so-patiently for the <a href="http://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/presskits/youthmediaawards/alayouthmediaawards" target="_blank">REAL announcements</a> to be made at the ALA Conference in just a few short weeks.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425130370380633997noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-43760305321348386492011-12-22T15:36:00.000-05:002011-12-22T15:36:00.065-05:00Final Reading List for 2012 Mock NewberyYou've looked over <a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/08/first-reading-list-for-2012-adult-mock.html" target="_blank">List One</a> and <a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/10/second-reading-list-for-2012-mock.html" target="_blank">List Two</a>. Here (at last) is the final reading list for the ACPL Mock Newbery 2012:<br />
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<a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/10/true-sort-of-by-katherine-hannigan.html" target="_blank">True (…sort of)</a> by Katherine Hannigan<br />
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<a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/08/wikkeling-by-steven-arntson.html" target="_blank">The Wikkeling</a> by Steven Arntson<br />
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<strong>YOUR CHOICE</strong> – Let us know in the comments below which title you were hoping was going to be included in the discussion; we’ll do our best to have it available for perusal on January 7th, the day of our in-person discussion.<br />
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We hope you'll consider joining us for our "in-person" discussion. You can register <a href="http://host5.evanced.info/allenco/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=30454&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&SignupType=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=1/1/2012&kw=newbery&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=ALL&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" target="_blank">online</a> or you can call Children's Services at 260.421.1220 to register.<br />
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<strong>WHO:</strong> Adults interested in great new children's books<br />
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<strong>WHERE:</strong> Allen County Public Library 900 Library Plaza Fort Wayne, Indiana<br />
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<strong>WHEN:</strong> Saturday, January 7, 2011 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pmMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425130370380633997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-4098580986246408482011-12-22T15:05:00.003-05:002011-12-22T15:09:02.971-05:00I Broke My Trunk by Mo Willems<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=%7Cacpl-bibs%7Cocn641530693"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EIvTbeJzNOE/TvOON7zallI/AAAAAAAAAF4/Nne9fUTqncM/s320/i.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689047124341855826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"I have not seen Gerald today."</span><br /><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.</span><br /><br />Hyperion Books; 57 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-65205125972072222492011-12-21T11:38:00.002-05:002011-12-21T11:41:23.268-05:00Have you registered yet?If you are in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area -- or will be on Saturday, January 7th -- we'd love to have you join us for our Mock Newbery discussion! <br />
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You can <a href="http://host5.evanced.info/allenco/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=30454&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&SignupType=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=1/1/2012&kw=newbery&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=ALL&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" target="_blank">register online</a> or you can call Children's Services at 260.421.1220 to register.<br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>WHO:</b> <span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="color: blue;">Adults interested in great new children's books</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>WHAT: </b> <span style="color: blue;"> ACPL Children's Services Mock Newbery discussion</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>WHERE: </b> <span style="color: blue;">Allen County Public Library 900 Library Plaza Fort Wayne, Indiana</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>WHEN: </b> <span style="color: blue;">Saturday, January 7, 2011 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was eleven years old, she learned that the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. She'd already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl would never get into the academy, especially without any connections in the Communist Party of the 1970s. But Zhongmei, whose name means Faithful Plum, persisted, even going on a hunger strike, until her parents agreed to allow her to go. She traveled for three days and two nights to get to Beijing and eventually beat out 60,000 other girls for one of 12 coveted spots.</span><br /><br />Alfred A. Knopf; 270 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-81180984726498393022011-11-23T10:53:00.000-05:002011-11-23T10:53:00.167-05:0012 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn by James Proimos<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|BK0009824263"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-va3fKo_xHGg/Tsp0z8350lI/AAAAAAAAAFg/0vQrX_rZFys/s320/12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677478716116685394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"The casket is closed."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">James "Hercules" Martino has until the end of the summer (a.k.a. two weeks) to accomplish the twelve tasks given to him by his Uncle Anthony. The tasks will take him to the far reaches of Baltimore, lead him to a Beautiful and Unattainable Woman, and change the way he sees his past, present, and future. </span><br /><br />Roaring Brook Press; 121 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-55126510343952581512011-11-22T10:46:00.000-05:002011-11-22T10:46:00.578-05:00Maggie & Oliver or A Bone of One's Own by Valerie Hobbs<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|BK0009523033"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BIsRln4148I/TspzfvfbZMI/AAAAAAAAAFU/ex03BPd7SNg/s320/maggie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677477269415355586" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"With his long, wet tongue, Oliver licked and licked Bertie's cheek."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><div class="syndetics_item"> <table class="dtable"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="2"> <div id="syndetics_summary"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maggie is always full of questions. But a young maid in a fine lady's house isn't supposed to wonder so much, so one day Maggie is thrown out into the street with only a tiny heart-shaped locket for a keepsake. A little dog named Oliver is pushing his nose along an icy sidewalk searching for his lost mistress, or at least something to eat. No matter how hard he looks he can't find either one, but he does see a girl with round blue eyes and a golden locket around her neck. The girl calls him "Lucky." And perhaps Lucky is the right name after all, for the little dog soon helps Maggie find a warm, wonderful home of her own--and one for him, too. </span><div id="syndetics_summary_copy"><br /></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Henry Holt; 181 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-17684909175801793382011-11-21T10:37:00.003-05:002011-11-21T10:45:50.083-05:00Body of Water by Sarah Dooley<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn698332897"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SzjigzXsdF0/TspwtNJNhDI/AAAAAAAAAFI/1Ih5ftkmHRI/s320/body.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677474202178651186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"I'm certain there were puddles, even before the fire trucks came."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After their trailer home and all their belongings are burned, twelve-year-old Ember and her Wiccan family move to a lakeside campground where Ember's anguish over losing her dog, as well as her friendship with the boy she fears started the fire, stops her from making new friends and moving on.</span><br /><br />Feiwel and Friends; 324 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-37284032610796730152011-11-11T09:30:00.000-05:002011-11-11T09:30:03.063-05:00Bluefish by Pat Schmatz<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=%7Cacpl-bibs%7Cocn694509720"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KgevAXj0h2s/TrxRK7wauPI/AAAAAAAAAE8/i2KyA6NsqR8/s320/bluefish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673498878861293810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"Travis stood in front of locker number 78."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. 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If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A year after her mother has deserted the family, eleven-year-old Shelby goes to stay with her, deep in the Louisiana bayou, where they both confront old hurts and regrets.</span><br /><br />Scholastic Press; 326 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-41568201104890267772011-11-02T17:31:00.000-04:002011-11-02T17:31:32.168-04:00Mock Newbery for Kids -- TWO New Titles!I am happy to announce TWO new titles for the Mock Newbery for Kids program. <br />
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These books join <a href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=%7Cacpl-bibs%7Cocn531718706">Amelia Lost</a> by Candace Fleming, and <a href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=%7Cacpl-bibs%7Cocn606403465">Inside Out and Back Again</a> by Thanhha Lai on the Mock Newbery for Kids Reading List. Look for one more title to be posted in a couple of weeks. <br />
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The <a href="http://host5.evanced.info/allenco/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=29712&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&SignupType=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=12/1/2011&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=14&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=">Mock Newbery for Kids</a> program is open to all children in grades 3 to 6. Simply read the books, and then we'll get together on Saturday, December 3 at 2pm to talk about the books, learn a little about the Newbery Award, and vote to decide which book will win the 2012 ACPL Kids' Mock Newbery Award. Click here to <a href="http://host5.evanced.info/allenco/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=29712&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&SignupType=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=12/1/2011&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=14&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=">register</a> to attend.Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17812854599461003966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-66184104369884568482011-10-31T09:00:00.000-04:002011-10-31T09:00:10.243-04:00The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn691201186"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XZQVwrSAOUc/TqrqbJ5NOaI/AAAAAAAAAEk/UZfA63liCXk/s320/aviary.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668600833232419234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"As a child, Clara Dooley had felt that the Glendoveer mansion contained the whole world."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In late nineteenth-century Maine, isolated, eleven-year-old Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.</span><br /><br />Alfred A. Knopf; 339 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-55160005569603623822011-10-30T09:30:00.000-04:002011-10-30T09:30:01.025-04:00Desert Angel by Charlie Price<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|BK0009523013"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FgrVZLBq2Rs/TqrpQL2d0RI/AAAAAAAAAEY/tHq4OSTlRAI/s320/desert.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668599545267605778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"The fight started after midnight, Scotty drunk, Angel's mother shrill on crystal."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fourteen-year-old Angel wakes up one morning at her desert trailer home to discover her mother has been murdered by a lowlife named Scotty, who has vanished. Angel has no water, no weapon, but she knows that Scotty, an expert tracker and hunter, will surface soon in order to eliminate her as a witness. She has to run, to disappear, if she is to survive and tell the world what happened. Her flight takes her through a harsh landscape to places she never expected to be, forcing her to trust others for the first time and strengthening her in ways she doesn't even anticipate . . . until it's time to take a stand.</span><br /><br />Farrar Straus Giroux; 236 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-3509885093720707112011-10-29T09:30:00.000-04:002011-10-29T09:30:02.102-04:00True (...sort of) by Katherine Hannigan<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn643762088"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UnSqVYfzF70/Tqrnjb2WrKI/AAAAAAAAAEM/fQIZmDkY3oY/s320/true%2Bsort%2Bof.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668597676956363938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"Delly Pattison was tiny."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, R.B., and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.</span><br /><br />Greenwillow Books; 360 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-9505684057033634892011-10-28T13:22:00.004-04:002011-10-28T13:30:04.907-04:00The Friendship Doll by Kirby Larson<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn646308042"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m3EMo2kKDYc/TqrmdDmYm4I/AAAAAAAAAEA/LoZP-M-FeQ4/s320/friendship%2Bdoll.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668596467856087938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"The old doll-maker Tatsuhiko poured boiling water into the teapot with trembling hands and inhaled deeply."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her.</span><br /><br />Delacorte Press; 201 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-12925227103750216712011-10-24T17:07:00.001-04:002011-10-24T17:10:50.459-04:00Second Reading List for 2012 Mock Newbery<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It’s finally here! The second reading list for this year's
ACPL Mock Newbery! This program will be held </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana on
January 14, 2012. While we will continue to highlight and discuss a wide
variety of children's books on our blog -- and we encourage comments on all of
them -- the books on this list <b>and</b>
on our <a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/08/first-reading-list-for-2012-adult-mock.html">first list</a> are destined to be 'brought to the table' to be discussed in
more depth at our “in person” Mock Newbery Discussion and Election. Our third and final
list will be posted in mid-November.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So… without further ado… here are
the ten titles on our second short list:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/10/monster-calls-by-patrick-ness.html">A Monster Calls</a> by Patrick Ness </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/10/between-shades-of-gray-by-ruta-sepetys.html">Between Shades of Gray</a> by Ruta Sepetys</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/07/bootleg-murder-moonshine-and-lawless.html">Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition</a> by Karen Blumenthal</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/09/dead-end-in-norvelt-by-jack-gantos.html">Dead End in Norvelt</a> by Jack Gantos </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/07/junonia-by-kevin-henkes.html">Junonia</a> by Kevin Henkes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/07/small-acts-of-amazing-courage-by.html">Small Acts of Amazing Courage</a> by Gloria Whelan</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/09/small-as-elephant-by-jennifer-richard.html">Small as an Elephant</a> by Jennifer Richards Jacobson</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/02/young-fredle-by-cynthia-voigt.html">Young Fredle</a> by Cynthia Voigt</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/10/wonderstruck-by-brian-selzick.html">Wonderstruck</a> by Brian Selznick</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://acplmocknewbery.blogspot.com/2011/10/words-in-dust-by-trent-reedy.html">Words in the Dust</a> by Trent Reedy</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We welcome continued online
discussion through this blog <i>and</i> invite you to join us for our "in
person" discussion to be held at our Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.</span></div>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425130370380633997noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-58280312157583345352011-10-24T09:00:00.000-04:002011-10-24T09:00:12.590-04:00Stick by Andrew Smith<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn698332895"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2KM2tt0t_xI/TqHEEwhLrNI/AAAAAAAAAD0/vby6A9wCSAs/s320/stick.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666025392231394514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"They call me Stick."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thirteen-year-old Stark "Stick" McClellan's brother has always defended him against those who tease him for his thinness and facial deformity, so when Bosten, having admitted he is gay, must leave home and their abusive parents, Stick sets out to find him.</span><br /><br />Feiwel and Friends; 292 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-87206223038563094932011-10-23T09:00:00.000-04:002011-10-23T09:00:02.462-04:00Spunky Tells All by Ann Cameron<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn647976485"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MfV7P6IDoX8/TqHC9cFHHbI/AAAAAAAAADo/dJJV82Rpcfk/s320/spunky.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666024166974234034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"I could tell you everything about the Bates faimly--things you'll never hear from anybody else."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Called a troublemaker by his human family, a reflective dog defends himself and then relates the family's adoption of an aristocratic but incompetent cat, who gives him a life purpose and and new way of looking at his world.</span><br /><br />Farrar Straus Giroux; 105 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-9475910154052280822011-10-22T09:00:00.000-04:002011-10-22T09:00:03.671-04:00A Month of Sundays by Ruth White<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn670374124"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w-D_N6EwLLM/TqHBZtJbfFI/AAAAAAAAADc/0Q_62-4aRqw/s320/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666022453568830546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"Before I was born fourteen years ago, my dad, August Rose, left my mom, Betty Rose, for a carnival singer."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.</span><br /><br />Farrar Straus Giroux; 168 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-85227584351032600752011-10-21T14:52:00.002-04:002011-10-21T14:55:10.576-04:00Pie by Sarah Weeks<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn706022922"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jaRv0FJniMU/TqG_0HTsVvI/AAAAAAAAADQ/tBp4VxabjGE/s320/pie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666020708244543218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"Thank you very much."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.</span><br /><br />Scholastic Press; 183 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-11865599813360924932011-10-19T09:59:00.003-04:002011-10-19T09:59:00.280-04:00Akata Witch by Nnedi OkorAfor<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=%7Cacpl-bibs%7Cocn468975295"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KmwxhvMpRJs/Tpbwh6lQOWI/AAAAAAAAADE/M4nzL5mb_-c/s320/akata.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662978046916835682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"I've always been fascinated by candles."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.</span><br /><br />Viking; 349 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690804960293453326.post-23075624952216007072011-10-18T09:54:00.000-04:002011-10-18T09:54:00.551-04:00The Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?itemid=|acpl-bibs|ocn700199906"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q_-PWSN1Pgc/TpbugxzQ2yI/AAAAAAAAAC4/Jo1C8J2Oix4/s320/flint.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662975828356553506" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"Many years ago, oh, let's say five thousand, more or less, there lived in the south of England, in what is called Darmoor, tribes of people who had never thought to make anything out of metal, much less plastic."</span><br /></div><br /><b>The summary</b> is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A magical amulet brings power and despair to those who touch it. A robust and wildly entertaining fairy tale, freely abridged from Eden Phillpotts's 1910 fantasy.</span><br /><br />Candlewick Press; 288 pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1