Tuesday, January 27, 2015

HVLA Mock Newbery Event Results

This past Saturday, a small but mighty group met at the High School campus of LREI for HVLA’s first ever Mock Newbery!  Before the event, members had voted on which titles they would like to discuss as a long list.  Those titles were:

The Riverman, by Aaron Starmer
The Family Romanov, by Candace Fleming
West of the Moon, by Margi Preus
The Greenglass House, by Kate Milford
A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd
Port Chicago 50, by Steve Sheinkin
Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
Under the Egg, by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier
The Fourteenth Goldfish, by Jennifer L. Holm

We followed the Newbery protocol for discussion and voting, and the tradition of fueling our afternoon with delicious snacks!  At the end of the voting we ended up with the winner and three honor books.  The winner of the first ever HVLA Mock Newbery is:

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

The Honor books are:

The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier
The Greenglass House, by Kate Milford
The Family Romanov, by Candace Fleming

Guest Post by Stacy Dillon

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