Short List Four -- Last Reading List for 2009!

Here (at long last) is Reading List 4 - the last reading list for our ACPL Mock Newbery 2009:

• Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

• Grow - A Novel in Verse by Juanita Havill

• Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill

• Jessie's Mountain by Kerry Madden

• Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

• Jimmy's Stars by Mary Ann Rodman

• Knucklehead - Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka
  

Click 2009 ACPL Mock Newbery Nominees for a complete, printable list of all 40 of this year's "Short List" Nominees; these are the books we will be discussing in January.

If you would like to register for the ACPL Mock Newbery for Adults, click here.

If you would like to register for the ACPL Mock Newbery for kids in grades 3 to 6, click here.

If you'd like to jump right in to the discussion and comment online about any of the titles on our lists, just click on the title - over there on the right - and comment away! All comments will be reviewed at our Mock Discussion in January.

Short List Three

This is the third of four "short lists" we will prepare for this year's Mock Newbery at the Allen County Public Library.

Short List Number 3:

• The Postcard by Tony Abbott

• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

• Magic Half by Annie Barrows

• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech

• Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse

• My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath

• Clementine's Letter by Sara Pennypacker

• Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith

• Little Audrey by Ruth White

Click here to see our 1st reading list of the year which was published in June. Click here to see our 2nd reading list of the year which was published in August. Click here to access all three lists in a printable format.

While we will continue to discuss a wide variety of books on our blog -- and we encourage comments on all of them -- we believe the books on the short lists are particularly strong. They are also destined to be "brought to the table" to be discussed in more depth at our Mock Newbery Election discussion to be held on Saturday, January 19, 2009.

If you'd like to suggest a book for the next (and last) list, just send me an email or leave a comment.

Happy Reading!

Short List Number One!

This is the first of four "short lists" we will prepare for this year's Mock Newbery at the Allen County Public Library. What does this mean to you? Basically, it means that while we will continue to discuss a wide variety of books on our blog -- and we encourage comments on all of them -- the books on this list are now destined to be 'brought to the table' to (hopefully) be discussed in more depth at our Mock Newbery Election discussion in January 2009. It also means that we think these books are particularly strong.

Short List # 1:

1. Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes

2. Diamond Willow by Helen Frost

3. Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff

4. Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park

5. Love Me Tender by Audrey Couloumbis

6. Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata

7. Savvy by Ingrid Law

8. Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell

9. Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume

10. The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry

11. Trouble by Gary Schmidt

12. Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

13. We Are the Ship – The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

We'd love to hear what you think about these books! Please leave comments about each title on the blog post about it. Click on the book title above to be directed to the blog post about it. If you'd like to suggest a book for the next list, just send me an email or leave a comment.

Happy Reading!