Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Awards Are Out… In… Awarded!

 

This year’s Newbery Medal Winner is When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead!  This fantastical book tells the a story of 12 –year-old New York City girl, who tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space that she receives as her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid."

Honor Books include Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice by Phillip Hoose, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (see review book bits March 11, 2010 http://westwoodchildrensdept.blogspot.com/search?q=evolution+of+calpurnia ), Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (see review book bits  April 28, 2010 http://westwoodchildrensdept.blogspot.com/search?q=where+the+mountain+ ),   The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (see review book bits June 24, 2009

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