AND THE WINNER IS....

Today at our Mock Newbery Election, participants from our book group voted for the following:
Winner:  Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Honor books in ranking order:  Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm, Mirror Mirror: a Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer, Candymakers by Wendy Mass, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Stephen Angleberger

Congratulations to the Falmouth Mock Newbery Book Group for your enthusiasm.  You guys were awesome.
A big THANK YOU to our ten readers from the community.  It made the event that much more special.

Cathy Potter, the school librarian was instrumental in making this whole project a success.

Get ready to start reading the 2011 books for the 2012 Mock Newbery Club.

Announcing the Mock Newbery -- Top 10 List!

Members of the Falmouth Mock Newbery Book Club nominated their favorite titles for the Top Ten List.  Book club members will vote for the book that will become the Falmouth Mock Newbery Winner on Monday, January 3rd after school held at Plummer-Motz.

Here is the Top Ten List (in alphabetical order)
1. Candymakers by Wendy Mass

2. Countdown by Deborah Wiles

3. Keeper by Kathi Appelt

4. Mirror, Mirror: a Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer

5. A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole

6.  Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

7.  Sparky: the Life and Art of Charles Schulz by Beverly Gherman

8.  The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger

9.  Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord

10. Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

Word After Word After Word by Patricia MacLachlan

  From the Publisher: "Every school day feels the same for fourth graders Lucy and Henry and Evie and Russell and May. Then Ms. Mirabel comes to their class—bringing magical words and a whole new way of seeing and understanding."

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010, 128 pp.

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

From the Publisher: "It was February 1, 1960. They didn't need menus. Their order was simple. A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side. Courageously defying the WHITES ONLY edict of the era, four young black men took a stand against the injustice of segregation in America by sitting down at the lunch counter of a Woolworth's department store. Countless others of all races soon joined the cause following Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful words of peaceful protest. By sitting down together, they stood up for civil rights and created the perfect recipe for integration not only at the Woolworth's counter, but on buses and and in communities throughout the South."

Publisher: Little Brown, 2010, 40 pp.

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhoades

  From the Publisher: "Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. So when Mama Ya-Ya's visions show a powerful hurricane--Katrina--fast approaching, it's up to Lanesha to call upon the hope and strength Mama Ya-Ya has given her to help them both survive the storm."

Publisher: Little Brown, 2010, 217 pp.

The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz

 From the Publisher: "What would happen to a fairy if she lost her wings and could no longer fly? Flory, a young night fairy no taller than an acorn and still becoming accustomed to her wings — wings as beautiful as those of a luna moth — is about to find out. What she discovers is that the world is very big and very dangerous. But Flory is fierce and willing to do whatever it takes to survive. If that means telling others what to do — like Skuggle, a squirrel ruled by his stomach — so be it. Not every creature, however, is as willing to bend to Flory’s demands."

Publisher: Candlewick, 2010, 117 pp.

The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester by Barbara O'Connor

From the Publisher: "An amazing secret has tumbled off a freight train into Carter, Georgia, and Owen Jester is the only person who knows about it. If he can simply manage to evade his grandfather’s snappish housekeeper, organize his two best friends, and keep his nosy neighbor, Viola, at bay, he just might be in for the summer of a lifetime."

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, 176 pp.