This is the last meeting before the real vote of the Newbery Award. I am excited and the students are excited. Monday's upcoming announcement http://ala.unikron.com/ is like the Oscars or the librarian's Super Bowl. Below you will see the books on our Mock Newbery List. We've read the following books and we hope you enjoy them too. 

A Drop of Hope 

Queen of the Sea 

The Okay Witch 

Genesis Begins Again 

Best Friends 

The New Kid 

Bridge Home 

Sal and Gabi Break (The Universe) 

Look Both Ways 

Roll With It

Song For A Whale

Count Me In 

Strange Birds 

Dear Sweat Pea 

Tristan Strong 

Coyote Sunrise 

The Line Tender 

The Undefeated 

Big Ideas that Changed the World (Rocket to the Moon) 

Super Jake and the King of Chaos 

Eventown 

Caterpillar Summer 

A Monster Like Me 

Miraculous 

The Story that Cannot be told 

Pay Attention, Carter Jones 

Birdsong USA

The Important thing about Margaret Wise Brown 

Because of the Rabbit

Shouting at the Rain 

Lion of the Sky

We discussed New Kid by Jerry Craft https://www.amazon.com/New-Kid-Jerry-Craft/dp/0062691198 and 

Best Friends https://www.amazon.com/s?k=best+friends&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Our book club share their last books they’ve read.

Students talk about the current library books they are reading.

Mock Newbery Book Club meets to discuss books they’ve recently read.

A 5th grade Mock Newbery Book meets and discusses books they think will win this year’s Newbery Award.