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More Mock-Newbery Titles Needed: Share June Suggestions Now
It’s once again time to put forward suggestions for the Heavy Medal Mock Newbery list. I’ve read some really strong books in the past month, and I bet others have too. You can share up to five...
View ArticleThe Books Just Keep Coming: 55 Suggested Titles for the Heavy Medal Mock Newbery
Thanks to all who suggested possible Newbery-worthy books in June! Our updated list is below. It includes 55 titles all together, including 17 making their first appearance (noted with an asterisk)....
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We’re Halfway There: Call for July Mock Newbery Suggestions
We’re six months into 2023 which means halfway through the publishing year. What amazes me is that there’s still SO MANY Newbery potentials that are not yet published. I have no idea what the best...
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Favorites are showing: Heavy Medal’s Halfway List
Thanks to all who suggested possible Newbery 2024 titles this month! It includes 59 titles with only four making their first appearance (much less than last months 17). SIMON SORT OF SAYS has even...
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Add to Our Mock Newbery List: August Suggestions are Now Open
We’re just about one month away from the official start of our Heavy Medal Mock Newbery season. We’ve been gathering suggestions of possible contenders since March, and will finally begin discussing...
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Suggestions Updated: 74 Possible Mock Newbery Titles to Consider
Our list of suggested titles for the Heavy Medal Mock Newbery has jumped to 74 books! This includes 14 titles appearing for the first time (those are marked below with an asterisk). While SIMON SORT...
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Suggest now or forever hold your peace: Heavy Medal 2024 Mock Newbery
And here goes another summer and our final suggestion piece for Heavy Medal! It’s your last time to suggest books to consider for our 2024 Mock Newbery, but don’t worry we will still be able to...
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Who Will Win? 86 Mock Newbery 2024 Suggestions
We officially concluded our suggestion period on Heavy Medal. Over the past seven months readers suggested 86 2024 Newbery eligible titles. This suggestion list will guide our blog posts and...
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Welcome to Heavy Medal, 2024 Edition
After compiling suggestions for the past six months, now is the time to finally start year 16 of Mock Newbery Discussions. Here’s a rough summary of what’s in store on this blog for the next five...
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Meet the Heavy Medal Bloggers
It’s great to be back! We know a lot of our readers have followed Heavy Medal for a while, but we also add new readers every year. So to start our season off, Emily and I will share a few facts about...
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Let’s Get This Party Started: Think about early favorites and take our...
To start off our Heavy Medal Mock Newbery season, Steven and I wrote back and forth about the books we’ve read and the books we’re looking forward to reading. Please join us with your own thoughts in...
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How are we doing? Heavy Medal 2024 By the Numbers
t’s time for my favorite yearly post, when I make charts and graphs (only charts this year) breaking down categories of our suggested books. Steven did most of the leg work this year breaking...
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It’s Top Two Time!: Share a pair of books you think have the best chance to...
It’s time for our first Friday Feedback exercise! Every week this year our Friday post will feature some kind of a prompt where we invite you to weigh in on a particular question related to the 2024...
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First Impressions aren’t always right: or are they? Beginning of the year...
Thank you to the 34 people who answered our Beginning of the Year Survey! It was very interesting to see people’s thoughts as we entered the year. These survey results will also guide Steven and I’s...
View ArticleComing Soon (Tomorrow) Wednesday Roundups
In our end-of-the-year survey last year, we received a lot of feedback about planning our book discussions in advance and giving notice so people can participate in discussions. We will as always...
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Nonfiction Round-Up: A look at Mock Newbery possibilities, from plastic...
This is the first of our weekly Wednesday Round-ups, where we’ll take a look at a handful of books from one broad type or category. You can see what topics are coming up in this earlier post. And plan...
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Friday Exercise: Take backs allowed. #NotsoNewbery
In our second Friday FExercise. we get to have a little fun and do something that was my one of my favorite part of Newbery deliberations: take something back. Is there a book you suggested that you...
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Newbery Possibilities on the National Book Award Longlist
Unlike the Newbery and most other ALA awards, the National Book Awards share their longlists of finalists. We’ll get the shortlist on October 3rd (usually 5 titles) and the winner is announced on...
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Memoirs, big families and road trips, oh my: Wednesday Roundup: Graphic Novels
In our second edition of Wednesday roundups, today we focus on graphic novels. What’s Been Suggested We have a good group of graphic novel suggestions so far with very different titles but similar...
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Debating Decades: Cast your votes in our survey of the best Newbery (and...
Our main focus on Heavy Medal is to look at the best books of the current year…but sometimes it’s fun to take a look backwards. So this fall we’re doing a set of polls for each of the past three...
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