After a great meeting with lots of discussion the Choose the Next Newbery at KCLS Committee has narrowed the ballot down to eight amazing titles. We will be holding four discussion events around the county where we will also be giving away advanced readers copies of the many, many, many books we considered.
Redmond Library, Thursday, October 8 at 7pm
Bellevue Library, Saturday, October 10 at 11am
Carnation Library, Friday, October 16 at 2pm
Covington Library, Wednesday, November 18 at 7pm
Update: If you missed attending a discussion event, you can listen to the Covington discussion here.
Choose the Next Newbery at KCLS culminates on December 18, 2009 when we open the voting so King County can choose its own winner. You can vote online or in person at your local library. The official Newbery Award will be announced at the end of January. To be eligible to vote you need to read at least four of the eight nominees.
The Final Eight
All The Broken Pieces : a novel in verse / by Ann E. Burg
Read the original blog post and add your comments.
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Also Known as Harper by Ann Haywood Leal
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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
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Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino
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Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
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The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
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Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
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Notables Titles That We Really Liked
Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz
Carolina Harmony by Marilyn Taylor McDowell
The Doom Machine by Mark Teague
Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Extra Credit by Andrew Clements
Fortune's Folly by Deva Fagan
Gone From These Woods by Donny Bailey Seagraves
Operation Yes by Sara Lewis Holmes
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Slob by Ellen Potter
Tracktown Summer by Elizabeth Holmes
Tropical Secrets by Margarita Engle
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin



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