Hello!
2008 has been a great year filled with excellent books for youth and I’m sure you must have spent part of your Thanksgiving holiday reading. The 2009 Newbery Award Committee would like to hear from you. Please send suggestions to rose.trevino@cityofhouston.net and I’ll share suggestions with the committee.
The 2009 Newbery Committee will review books with a 2008 copyright. Thanks in advance for any suggestions sent! For award criteria, please visit the ALSC Website –>Awards & Grants –>ALSC Book & Media Awards–>Newbery Medal–>Newbery Terms & Criteria.
Thanks again!
Rose
Rose V. Treviño
Youth Services Coordinator
IMLS Project Director
Houston Public Library
500 McKinney St.
Houston, TX 77002
tracy
Please consider keeping score by linda sue park
Nan Hoekstra
These are the favorites for best of 2008:
Anokaberry 2009 Short List #3
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
Where the Steps Were by Andrea Cheng
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
The Walls of Cartagena by Julia Durango
The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt
Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris by R.L. LaFevers
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Storyteller by Edward Myers
Skin Deep by E.M. Crane
Six Innings by James Preller
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial by Jen Bryant
Rex Zero, King of Nothing by Tim Wynne-Jones
The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy and Snowcap
by H.M. Bouwman
Princess Ben by Catherine Murdock
Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Little Audrey by Ruth White
Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park
Jimmy’s Stars by Mary Ann Rodman
Jeremy Cabbage and the Living Museum of Human Oddballs and Quadruped Delights
by David Elliott
I Am Apache by Tanya Landman
Hip Hop Speaks to Children with CD: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
by Nikki Giovanni
Grow: A Novel in Verse by Juanita Havill
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Floating Circus by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
The Facttracker by Jason Carter Eaton
The Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island by Laurence Yep
A Difficult Boy by M.P. Barker
Deep Down Popular by Phoebe Stone
Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
The Comeback Season by Jennifer E. Smith
Black Box: A Novel by Julie Schumacher
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Weatherford
Along Came Spider by James Preller
42 Miles by Tracie Vaughn
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
Angela F.
I suggest Juanita Havill’s GROW too.
Charline Profiri
Grow: A Novel in Verse by Juanita Havill is a beautiful book about a twelve-year-old helping to create a community garden. I highly recommend it.
Michelle
Linda Sue Park: Keeping Score
Ross Treibor
Another backer of Skin Deep by Crane.