Which title do you think will win the Newbery Award for the best book published in 2009?
Below is a list of really great titles that will be considered for the Award. You can read these or any book that has been published in 2009. We can tally up the nominees in January and see if kids in Los Angeles like the same books as the Newbery committee.
You can also see what titles others are voting for.
- Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
- All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg
- Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
- Happenstance Found by P.W. Catanese
- The Problem with the Puddles by Kate Feiffer
- The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
- Emmaline and the Bunny by Katherine Hannigan
- Scat by Carl Hiaasen
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
- Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Love, Aubrey by Suzanne M. LaFleur
- Also Known as Harper by Ann Haywood Leal
- Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino
- Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
- Bettina Valentino and the Picasso Club by Niki Daly.
- The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
- The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
- Yankee at the Seder by Elka Weber
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
- Strawberry Hill by Mary Ann Hoberman
If you would like to see the real rules the committee uses to select the winners, they are available here.
Check out what titles other people have voted for.