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Newbery Award

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña

October 6, 2016 by Amy 1 Comment

See those three seals on this book cover?  That’s some heavy metal.  🙂  Last Stop on Market Street won the 2016 Newbery Medal, a 2016 Caldecott honor, and a 2016 Coretta Scott King honor for illustration.  Wow! Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson is a sweet, sweet … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Picture Books Tagged: Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades, Picture Books

Newbery Through the Decades–2000s/Septebmer link-up

September 30, 2016 by Amy 2 Comments

Fall and cooler weather have finally descended upon north Alabama.  Can we all shout a collective “hallelujah”?  🙂  That also means that this challenge is almost at an end.  I typically pick up speed toward the end of the challenge because so many of the titles are already familiar to me, and this year is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

September 29, 2016 by Amy 1 Comment

I opened Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan, a 2003 Newbery honor book, not really expecting to like it.  Something about both the cover and the plot premise– juvenile delinquent “survives” living with a homeschooling family–always turned me off.  I’m a little bit sensitive about how homeschooling is represented by the world at large, so I’m … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Education Tagged: Juvenile Fiction, Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades, Philosophy and Methods

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

September 20, 2016 by Amy Leave a Comment

I listened to the audiobook of the 2005 Newbery honor book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt and narrated by Sam Freed last week.  I am already such a fan of Gary D. Schmidt that it wasn’t hard to sell me on this title.  I had tried to read it once … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction Tagged: Juvenile Fiction, Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades, Printz Award, Young Adult Fiction

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

September 2, 2016 by Amy 1 Comment

Lulu and I continued our adventure with Grandma Dowdel that we started a few weeks ago via audiobook, and what a heartwarming and completely entertaining adventure it is!  A Year Down Yonder picks up more or less where A Long Way from Chicago leaves off, only this time Joey is off working for the CCC and Mary … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books Tagged: Audiobooks, Juvenile Fiction, Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades, Young Adult Fiction
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