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.

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

From the Publisher: "Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is al
ways recording.  She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but no one knows it. Most people, her teachers and doctors included, don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows . . . but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write.Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind, that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice . . . but not everyone around her is ready to hear it." 
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2010, 295 pp.