FINISHED:
Medina, Meg. (2018). Merci Suárez Changes Gears. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.

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STARTED:
Johnson, Maureen. (2019). The Vanishing Stair. New York: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins.

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STARTED & FINISHED: 
Krosoczka, Jarrett J. (2018). Hey, Kiddo. New York: Graphix/Scholastic.

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FINISHED:
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2015). The War That Saved My Life. New York: Dial/Penguin.

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STARTED:
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2017). The War I Finally Won. New York: Dial/Penguin.

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FINISHED:
Yoon, Nicola. (2016). The Sun is Also a Star. New York: Delacorte/Random House.

[Jamaican Natasha and Korean American Daniel spend the day wandering around New York determining that they are meant to be together.  Drawn together while each focused on a potentially life-changing task (he has an interview with a Yale graduate, she is hoping to prevent her family from being deported back to Jamaica that evening), the two, through alternating chapters in each of their voices, examine the links between life and love, and coincidence and fate.]

STARTED:
Standish, Ali. (2017). The Ethan I Was Before. New York: HarperCollins.

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FINISHED: 
Bryan, Ashley. (2016). Freedom Over Me. New York: Simon & Schuster.

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STARTED:
Wegelius, Jakob. (2017). The Murderer's Ape. New York: Delacorte/Random House.

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FINISHED:
Zusak, Markus. (2005). The Book Thief. New York: Knopf.

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STARTED:
Oh, Ellen [Ed.]. (2017). Flying Lessons & Other Stories. New York: Crown/Random House.

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FINISHED: 
Whitehead, Colson. (2016). The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday/Penguin Random House.

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STARTED:
Marciano, John Bemelmans. (2016). Mischief Season [Witches of Benevento, Book 1]. New York: Viking/Penguin Random House.

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FINISHED: 
Reynolds, Jason and Brendan Kiely. (2015). All American Boys. New York: Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.

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STARTED:
Kinney, Jeff. (2016). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down. New York: Amulet/Abrams.

[Must try to read the very popular new titles kids will be asking for... plus, they are occasionally kind of laugh-out-loud amusing...]

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FINISHED: 
Lin, Grace. (2016). When the Sea Turned to Silver. New York: Little Brown.

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STARTED:
Brown, Box. (2016). Tetris: The Games People Play. New York: First Second.

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FINISHED:
Jamieson, Victoria. (2015). Roller Girl. New York: Penguin.

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STARTED:
Peck, Richard. (2016). The Best Man. New York: Dial/Penguin.

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FINISHED: 
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2015). The War That Saved My Life. New York: Dial/Penguin.

[As with ECHO below, I love that I now have a chance to list this one on the blog.  Obviously, by virtue of the fact that it was (SO DESERVING OF) one of our Newbery Honors, it is a book that I have read A NUMBER of times.  AND, I know that I will read it a BUNCH more times over the years.  TRULY TRULY one of my favorites last year... and definitely one of my favorites of all time.]

STARTED:
Jamieson, Victoria. (2015). Roller Girl. New York: Penguin.

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FINISHED:

Ryan, Pam Muñoz. (2015).  Echo.  New York: Scholastic.

[SO PLEASED to now be able to list this one here on the blog.  Obviously, as it was on of our Newbery Honor books, it's one that I read A NUMBER of times last year.  Also cool to now read it to just... read it.  No more note-taking and intense scrutiny.  Just able to read it for the FANTASTIC piece of fiction that it is.]

STARTED:
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2015). The War That Saved My Life. New York: Dial/Penguin.

[Re-reading before meeting the author at the ALA Annual conference.]

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To Commemorate Having Been on the 2016 Newbery Committee!

FINISHED:
Hardinge, Frances. (2016). The Lie Tree. New York: Amulet/Abrams.

[Took me awhile to finish this one...  True, I read The BFG in between, but although I found The Lie Tree just as remarkable as the hype, it was still a bit of a slog for me.]

STARTED:
DiCamillo, Kate. (2016).  Raymie Nightingale.  Somerville, MA: Candlewick.

[We finally got copies in!  I can now see what all of the chatter is about!]

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FINISHED:
De Angeli, Marguerite. (1949). The door in the wall. New York: Laurel-Leaf/Random House.

[Not my favorite Newbery winner, but better than I expected it would be.  For whatever reason, I thought that this was a fantasy title (a la Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain]...


STARTED:
Feldman, Jody. (2014). The Gollywhopper Games:  The new champion. New York: Greenwillow/HarperCollins.

[LOVED the first one!  SO happy to see that there is now a sequel!!]


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FINISHED:
Raskin, Ellen. (1978). The Westing game. New York: Puffin/Penguin.

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STARTED & FINISHED:
Roberts, Russell. (2004). John Newbery and the story of the Newbery Medal. Hockessin, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers.

[.]

STARTED:
Barakiva, Michael. (2014). One man guy. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
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FINISHED:
Kadohata, Cynthia. (2013). The thing about luck. New York: Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.

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STARTED:
Barrows, Annie. (2013).  Ivy + Bean take the case.  San Francisco: Chronicle.

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FINISHED:
Martel, Yann. (2001). Life of Pi. New York: Harcourt.

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STARTED:
Fairlie, Emily. (2012).  The lost treasure of Tuckernuck.  New York: Katherine Tegan/HarperCollins.

[Reviewing for ACL...]

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FINISHED:
Wright, Bil. (2011). Putting makeup on the fat boy. New York: Simon & Schuster.



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STARTED:
Lowry, Lois. (2012). Son. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

[!!!!!!!!!!!!]

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FINISHED:
Marcus, Leonard S. (2012). Show me a story!: Why picture books matter: Conversations with 21 of the world's most celebrated illustrators. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.
[Fascinating read for ANYONE interested in children's literature - particularly children's picture books.  Interesting that most of the authors interviewed here never had any idea that they would end up writing/illustrating children's books.  A majority seemed to start out in graphic design and ended up falling into making books for kids. Some amazing names talking here: Mo Willems, Maurice Sendak, William Steig, TANA HOBAN (!)...]


STARTED:
Stead, Rebecca. (2012). Liar & spy. New York: Wendy Lamb/Random House.

[Reading the ARC that I got at ALA last weekend!]

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