We've Moved Again!

Please visit us at ACPL's new Pinterest page where there is a Board devoted to Mock Newbery 2014 books.
 
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 this board, and comment & "like" the books pinned there.

We look forward to seeing you at our new Pinterest board!

We've Moved!

Please visit us at ACPL's new kids' blog, One Book, Two Books, Old Books, New Books.  

Find our latest Mock Newbery nominees by selecting "Mock Newbery" in the drop down category box on the right-hand side of the new blog.

Click here to see the complete list of books -- updated weekly! -- we are considering for this year's ACPL's Mock Newbery.

We look forward to seeing you at our new blog!

And the REAL 2012 Newbery Winner Is....

Dead End in Norvelt written by Jack Gantos






 Two Newbery Honor Books were selected. They are:

 Inside Out & Back Again written by Thanhha Lai






and

 Breaking Stalin’s Nose written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin

Congratulations to all the winners.

It was a great year for Children's Books!

2012 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...

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai










Our group also selected one Honor Book:

Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt









What great fun!  Now we'll all wait ever-so-patiently for the REAL announcements to be made at the ALA Conference in just a few short weeks.

Final Reading List for 2012 Mock Newbery

You've looked over List One and List Two. Here (at last) is the final reading list for the ACPL Mock Newbery 2012:

The Aviary by Kathleen O’Dell

Bluefish by Pat Schmatz

Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin

I Broke My Trunk by Mo Willems

The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill

True (…sort of) by Katherine Hannigan

The Wikkeling by Steven Arntson

With a Name Like Love by Tess Hilmo

YOUR CHOICE – 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.

We hope you'll consider joining us for our "in-person" discussion. You can register online or you can call Children's Services at 260.421.1220 to register.
Here are the details:

WHO:        Adults interested in great new children's books

WHAT:      ACPL Children's Services Mock Newbery discussion

WHERE:    Allen County Public Library  900 Library Plaza  Fort Wayne, Indiana

WHEN:      Saturday, January 7, 2011 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

I Broke My Trunk by Mo Willems

"I have not seen Gerald today."

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Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.

Hyperion Books; 57 pages

Have 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!

You can register online or you can call Children's Services at 260.421.1220 to register.

Here are the details:

WHO:       Adults interested in great new children's books

WHAT:     ACPL Children's Services Mock Newbery discussion

WHERE:   Allen County Public Library  900 Library Plaza  Fort Wayne, Indiana

WHEN:     Saturday, January 7, 2011 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

We look forward to hearing your comments in our discussion!

A Girl Named Faithful Plum: The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream by Richard Bernstein

"One sunny morning in the spring of 1978 in the remote, very northernmost part of China, a slight eleven-year-old girl named Li Zhongmei got on a bus for the first leg of a journey to Beijing, China's capital."

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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.

Alfred A. Knopf; 270 pages

12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn by James Proimos

"The casket is closed."

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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.

Roaring Brook Press; 121 pages

Maggie & Oliver or A Bone of One's Own by Valerie Hobbs

"With his long, wet tongue, Oliver licked and licked Bertie's cheek."

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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.

Henry Holt; 181 pages