With December around the corner, it’s time to submit the final two nominations for the Heavy Medal Mock Newbery Award. This is the last of three rounds for nominations, two titles for a total of seven books nominated. Like the real Committee, Heavy Medal readers were asked to select three titles in October and two in November. The 52 titles already nominated are listed here. Now it’s time to choose our final picks.
It’s fun to do the math- like if every member on a Newbery committee nominated a different book than there would be 105 total titles to read!!). But that never happens!
Now is a key time to think about strategy. Do you want to add your support to a title that already has nominations? Or go strictly by your personal ranking, regardless of nomination totals to date? Or pick books that might not be your top choice, but have the “strongest” Newbery potential? Or choose a “long-shot”, a book that hasn’t been nominated yet, but you want to have a place on the table?
On Heavy Medal, we’ll consider the nominations totals as we select the titles for the Heavy Medal Book List, which will be announced soon. We already know six books that on that list, but it’s fine to use your last nominations for any of those six as well.
Please comment your nominations below: you can just name the titles, but you’re also welcome to include a bit about why you chose them.
If you missed either of the previous nomination periods you can catch up now, as long as you don’t exceed seven total. December Nominations will close on the end of the day Saturday, December 2nd and we’ll post totals on Monday the 4th.
Now own Monday, own your final nominations!