Coming down the home stretch! I’ve now read and reviews 80% of the Newbery winners!!! Considering how long I have put off some of these books they weren’t too bad! Only two of them were so boring I’d not consider reading them again.
1. Merci Suárez Changes Gears – I loved this book sooooo much! I truly believe that it is the most timeless story from the last decade – in a decade already filled with timeless tales! Part of my fondness is undoubtedly how much I connect with Merci, she is definitely one of those mirror characters.
1. Merci Suárez Changes Gears – I loved this book sooooo much! I truly believe that it is the most timeless story from the last decade – in a decade already filled with timeless tales! Part of my fondness is undoubtedly how much I connect with Merci, she is definitely one of those mirror characters.
2. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – A classic for a reason! I can see why this is one of those books that anyone who cares about children’s literature makes time to read. I can’t wait to dog into more of this author’s work!
3. Moon Over Manifest – A great story told through a series of flashbacks. I really like these kinds of stories where the past and the present tie together, it seems to happen more in movies and tv shows (where you can – bonus! – use the same actor in multiple roles), so it was nice to see it in a book format.
4 New Kid – Finally, the graphic novel is coming into its own! This was a nice story filled with lots of layers and nuances. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this to any m9ddle schooler.
5. Hello, Universe – Lovely story with a wide range of believable characters, gives us one of the most interesting looks at the bullied and the bully in modern kid’s lit.
6. Dead End in Norvelt – So quirky and funny, I enjoyed this tale of small town America and how this community functions.
7. Jacob Have I Loved – So much better than I expected, Katherine Paterson somehow makes a whiny protagonist pining after an old man work.
8. The Slave Dancer – Not too shabby as far as 70s historical fiction goes – but I wanted it to get more in depth. However that would have taken the book out of the target age range.
9. Criss Cross – Middle school angst. Bleh.
10. Rifles for Watie – Zzzzzzzz…
And now, the countdown!
And now, the countdown!
1. A Wrinkle in Time
2. Number the Stars
3. Crispin: Cross of Lead
4. Island of the Blue Dolphins
5. Julie of the Wolves
6. Maniac Magee
7. Bud, Not Buddy
8. King of the Wind
9. The Trumpeter of Krakow
10. Out of the Dust
11. When You Reach Me
12. Crossover
13. Merci Suárez Changes Gears
14. The Tale of Despereaux
15. The Door in the Wall
16. Holes
17. Caddie Woodlawn
18. Kira-Kira
19. Sounder
20. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
21. The Giver
22. The Westing Game
23. Bridge to Terabithia
24. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
25. The View from Saturday
26. Sarah, Plain and Tall
27. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
28. Call It Courage
29. Miracles on Maple Hill
30. Moon Over Manifest
31. The Wheel on the School
32. The Cat Who Went to Heaven
33. The One and Only Ivan
34. The Midwife's Apprentice
35. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
36. The Twenty-One Balloons
37. The Hero and the Crown
38. Onion John
39. Shiloh
40. The Graveyard Book
41. New Kid
42. Adam of the Road
43. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
44. Hello, Universe
45. The Summer of the Swans
46. Dear Mr. Henshaw
47. Missing May
48. Dead End in Norvelt
49. Tales from Silver Lands
50. Last Stop on Market Street
51. Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
52. Jacob Have I Loved
53. A Gathering of Days
54. The Whipping Boy
55. The Slave Dancer
56. Dicey's Song
57. Shen of the Sea
58. Shadow of a Bull
59. The White Stag
60. Rabbit Hill
61. Strawberry Girl
62. Flora and Ulysses
63. Miss Hickory
64. The Matchlock Gun
65. A Visit to William Blake's Inn
66. Thimble Summer
67. M.C. Higgins, the Great
68. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
69. It's Like This, Cat
70. Ginger Pye
71. The Secret of the Andes
72. Criss Cross
73. Up a Road Slowly
74. The Dark Frigate
75. Rifles for Watie
76. Amos Fortune, Free Man
77. The Story of Mankind
78. Johnny Tremain
79. Dobry
80. Daniel Boone
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