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Goodbye For Now
With the announcement of THE LAST CUENTISTA as the 2022 Newbery Medal Winner at the Youth Media Awards and of course STARFISH as our all-around 2022 Heavy Medal Mock Newbery winner, our season has...
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Mock Newbery Kick-Off: Share your early suggestions for the 2023 Newbery Medal
We’re now officially in the beginning of the second century of the Newbery Award. On Heavy Medal, we’ll do our best to identify some of the best books of 2022. We’ll discuss many of these titles in...
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March Suggestions: A list of early Mock Newbery candidates
The first round of “suggestions” for our 2023 is now complete. Our list so far includes 13 titles. The five books that received multiple recommendations show a pretty broad range of formats and...
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Heavy Medal Award Committee Live Zoom Results
Thank you to all who attended today’s live Zoom session. For those who missed, the recording is already available here. Thanks to the staff of School Library Journal for all their support! We had...
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Reader’s Poll Mock Newbery Results
STARFISH makes a clean sweep of the three different Mock Newbery polls we’ve held here on Heavy Medal. Both the Heavy Medal Award Committee and the Viewers of our their live Zoom discussion on Friday...
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The 2022 Newbery Medal goes to: THE LAST CUENTISTA
This morning Emily and I both watched the ALA Youth Media Awards webcast in our own separate states (Oregon/me, Illionois/Emily) and shared our reactions live using a shared Google document. That...
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Frequently Asked Questions: About the Newbery Committee Experience
During last week’s live Zoom (which you can watch here), we received many thoughtful questions about the Newbery experience. There wasn’t enough time to address them all, so here are some FAQ’s,...
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Looking Ahead to the 2023 Newbery Medal
Now that the results of the 2022 Newbery Medal have been announced, we’re exactly 52 weeks from learning what the 2023 winner will be. There will be a lot of reading, writing, and discussing on Heavy...
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Goodbye For Now
With the announcement of THE LAST CUENTISTA as the 2022 Newbery Medal Winner at the Youth Media Awards and of course STARFISH as our all-around 2022 Heavy Medal Mock Newbery winner, our season has...
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Mock Newbery Kick-Off: Share your early suggestions for the 2023 Newbery Medal
We’re now officially in the beginning of the second century of the Newbery Award. On Heavy Medal, we’ll do our best to identify some of the best books of 2022. We’ll discuss many of these titles in...
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March Suggestions: A list of early Mock Newbery candidates
The first round of “suggestions” for our 2023 is now complete. Our list so far includes 13 titles. The five books that received multiple recommendations show a pretty broad range of formats and...
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Call for April Mock Newbery Suggestions
It’s time to share April suggestions as part of the Heavy Medal Mock Newbery process. A month ago, our first round of suggestions got us started with a starting list of 13 titles. As the list of 2022...
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Doubling the titles: April Heavy Medal Suggestions
Eighteen new titles were suggested this month, bringing us to a list of 32 total suggestions for the 2023 Heavy Medal Mock Newbery. New From Here The Ogress and the Orphans I’m excited to have quite...
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Let’s Make Some May Suggestions!
We’re already in the month of MAY (don’t ask me how that happens!) And it is time for a new month of Heavy Medal suggestions. Details about how suggestions work are in Steven’s March post; but...
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Many May Suggestions: First Quarter Mock Newbery Possibilities
It was a busy month for reading and suggestions and although OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS remains at the top of our suggestion list, we have a large number of new titles to keep an eye on as the first...
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Time for June Suggestions
Have you read any more excellent Newbery-eligible books in the past month? Now’s the time to let us know by submitting your June suggestions. To add to our growing list of possible 2023 Newbery...
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Mock Newbery Update – Our List of First Half Suggestions
Here’s our newly updated list of suggestions. These are the children’s books that Heavy Medal readers have put forward as potential contenders for the 2023 Newbery Medal. Since we only include books...
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Continuing the Mock Newbery Process: Time for July Suggestions
We’re officially more than halfway through 2022. Last week in Washington, DC, the Newbery-Caldecott Banquet was held in person for the first time since 2019. Jason Chin, Donna Barba Higuera, and Grace...
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Mid-Summer Update: 63 titles on our Mock Newbery list
Our list of possible Newbery contenders from the first part of 2022 now stands at 63 titles. We added 22 title suggestions in July, and seven of those appear for the first time…those are marked with...
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Adding to the Mock Newbery List: Submit your August suggestions
We’re just over a month away from launching our 2023 Mock Newbery discussion on Heavy Medal. Until then, we’ll continue to build our reading list by asking for suggestions of possible contenders. We...
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