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

The First Reading List for the 2011 Mock Newbery Discussion

Here is the first of three lists we will prepare for this year's Mock Newbery Program at the Falmouth Memorial Library. We will continue to highlight and discuss new books on the blog. These "Top Ten" titles could be the ones we discuss more in depth at our Mock Newbery Discussion to be held this fall.


A Million Shades of Gray by Cynthia Kadohata
Alchemy and Meggy Swann by Karen Cushman
As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
The Hive Detectives by Loree G. Burns
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
Mirror Mirror: a Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer
One Crazy Summer by Rita Garcia-Williams
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

Reading List #2
Reading List #3
Mock Newbery Book Club information