Ocean County Library’s Mock Newbery List
The date and time are yet to be determined (possibly January 3, 9 or 10), but we will be meeting to discuss possible Newbery winners! It has been a great year for children’s literature so don’t be daunted by the list. These books are excellent.
If you are in the Ocean County Area and want to join us, let me know! This is the first year we are including Non-Fiction picks 
Fiction
The Prince of Fenway Park by Julianna Baggot (review)
All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg (review)
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane (review)
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo (review)
The Problem with the Puddles by Kate Feiffer (review)
The Dream Stealer by Dis Fleishman (Pictures by Peter Sis)
Brooklyn Nine: a Novel in Nine Innings by Alan Gatz
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (review)
Neil Armstrong is my Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino (review)
The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson
A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (review)
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (review)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Tate (review)
Non-Fiction
The Great and Only Barnum by Candice Fleming
Traveling the Freedom Road by Linda Barrett Osborne
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane « Dog Ear said,
October 13, 2009 at 5:38 am
[...] many of the themes present in several of this year’s best children’s books (see OCL’s Mock Newbery List): death and abandonment, grief and alienation, discrimination and friendship. Yet none of these [...]