Join us for SJCPL's Mock Newbery Club. For readers ages 9-14. We'll be reading a variety of books eligible to win the 2010 Newbery Medal. Be ready to read a lot and talk about what makes the writing good--or not. Registration required. Please register online or call 282-4607.

***PLEASE NOTE: You CAN read ahead. So if you've already read some of the books on the October list and want to read from the November or December list, you can.

You are also allowed to read eligible titles on your own & submit recommendations of titles that are NOT on the list, so that something great that Kris might have missed can be discussed by the whole group & considered for our Mock Newbery Medal. AND Kris reserves the right to add a couple of titles if she finds more. : )

For the October 8 meeting (4:00-5:00 p.m.):
Read 3 or more of these 6:

• Burg, Ann. All the Broken Pieces. (T)
• Hiaasen, Carl. Scat. (J, A)
• Philbrick, Rodman. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg. (J, A)
• Riordan, Rick. The Last Olympian. (T, A)
• Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. (T, 7/14/09)
• Woodson, Jacqueline. Peace, Locomotion. (J, A)

For November 12 meeting (4:00-5:00 p.m.):
Read 3 titles from either the October or November lists. Try to pick titles from past lists that other Club members are excited about.

• DiCamillo, Kate. The Magician’s Elephant. (J, 9/8/09)
• Engle, Margarita. Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba. (T)
• Ferrari, Michael. Born to Fly. (J, 7/14/09)
• Fleischman, Sid. The Dream Stealer. (J, 9/1/09)
• Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. (J)
• Parry, Rosanne. Heart of a Shepherd. (J)

For December 10 meeting (4:00-5:00 p.m.):
Read 3 titles from any of the lists—focus on titles that other Club members are excited about if they’re from the Oct. or Nov. lists.

• Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone Shines My Shoes. (J, 9/8/09)
• Farmer, Nancy. The Islands of the Blessed. (J, 10/20/09)
• Hale, Shannon. Forest Born. (T, 9/15/09)
• Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. (J Bio C726h)
• Marino, Nan. Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies by Muscle Man McGinty. (J)
• Paterson, Katherine. Day of the Pelican. (J, 10/19/09)

EXTRA CREDIT-Do you want to try some other eligible, highly recommended titles that just missed the list? These books could win, so you might want to check out some of them too. The book that won last year’s SJCPL Mock Newbery Medal was from the Extra Credit List (The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.)

• Abrahams, Peter. Reality Check. (T)
• Alvarez, Julia. Return to Sender. (J)
• Armstrong, Alan. Looking for Marco Polo. (J, 9/22/09)
• Baskin, Nora Raleigh. Anything but Typical. (J)
• Bausum, Ann. Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration. (J 325.73 B328d)
• Beil, Michael D. The Red Blazer Girls. (J, A)
• Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. Diego: Bigger Than Life. (J Bio R5242b)
• Carmichael, Clay. Wild Things. (J)
• Cantanese, P.W. Happenstance Found. (J)
• Cashore, Kristin. Fire. (T, 10/5/09)
• Clement, Andrew. Extra Credit. (J)
• Cochrane, Mick. The Girl Who Threw Butterflies. (J)
• Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. (T, 9/1/09)
• Couloumbis, Audrey. War Games. (J, 10/27/09)
• Creech, Sharon. The Unfinished Angel. (J, 9/22/09)
• Dana, Barbara. A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson. (T)
• Dowell, Frances O’Roark. The Kind of Friends We Used to Be. (J)
• Feiffer, Kate. The Problem with the Puddles. (J, A)
• Fitzmaurice, Kathryn. The Year the Swallows Came Early. (J)
• Fleming, Candace. The Great and Only Barnum. (J, 9/8/09)
• Floca, Brian. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11. (J 629.454 F651m, Easy)
• French, S. Terrell. Operation Redwood. (J)
• Frost, Helen. Crossing Stones. (T, 9/29/09)
• Giff, Patricia Reilly. Wild Girl. (J, 8/11/09)
• Graff, Lisa. Umbrella Summer. (J)
• Gratz, Alan. The Brooklyn 9: A Novel in Nine Innings. (J)
• Hannigan, Katherine. Emmaline and the Bunny. (J)
• Heiligman, Deborah. Charles and Emma. (T)
• Holmes, Sara Lewis. Operation YES. (J, 9/1/09)
• Hostetter, Joyce Moyer. Comfort. (T)
• Jackson, Donna. Extreme Scientists. (J 509.2 J133e)
• Kelly, Katy. Melonhead. (J)
• Korman, Gordon. Pop. (T, 9/1/09)
• Lafleur, Suzanne. Love, Aubrey. (J)
• Leal, Ann Haywood. Also Known As Harper (J)
• Levine, Kristin. Best Bad Luck I Ever Had. (J)
• Lin, Grace. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.
• Lowry, Lois. Crow Call. (10/01/09)
• Magoon, Kekla. The Rock and the River. (T)
• Marrin, Albert. Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl. (J, 8/20/09)
• Marsh, Katherine. The Twilight Prisoner. (T)
• Martin, Ann. Everything for a Dog. (J, 9/1/09)
• Mass, Wendy. Eleven Birthdays. (J)
• McGinty, Alice. Darwin. (J Bio D259mc, Easy)
• Murphy, Jim. A Savage Thunder: Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom. (J, 7/7/09)
• Murphy, Jim. Truce. (J, 10/1/09)
• Myers, Walter Dean. Riot. (T, 9/22/09)
• McDowell, Marilyn Taylor. Carolina Harmony. (J)
• Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Faith, Hope, and Ivy June. (J)
• Nelson, Marilyn. Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World. (J,10/29/09)
• Osborne, Linda Barrett. Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery & the Civil War Through Reconstruction. (J 973.741 Os1t)
• Patron, Susan. Lucky Breaks.(J, A)
• Peck, Richard. A Season of Gifts. (T, 9/17/09)
• Perkins, Mitali. Secret Keeper. (T)
• Rappaport, Doreen. Eleanor, Quiet No More: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt. (J bio R6772r, Easy)
• Rubin, Susan Goldman. The Anne Frank Case: Simon Wiesenthal’s Search for the Truth. (J 940.5318 R824a)
• Shange, Ntozake. Coretta Scott. (J bio K58sh, Easy)
• Slayton, Fran. When the Whistle Blows. (J)
• Smith, Hope Anita. Mother Poems. (J)
• Stone, Tanya Lee. Almost Astronauts. (J 820.72 ST72a)
• Tolan, Stephanie. Wishworks, Inc. (J, 6/1/09)
• Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. (J 614.17 W154w)
• Wallace, Richard. Perpetual Check. (T)
• Warren, Andrea. Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg. (J 973.734 W251u)
• Weber, Elka. The Yankee at the Seder. (J)
• Weyn, Suzanne. Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic. (T)
• Whitcomb, Laura. The Fetch. (T)
• Wrede, Patricia. Thirteenth Child. (T)
• Yohalem, Eve. Escape Under the Forever Sky. (J)


J=Juvenile; T=Teen; A=Audio; Date listed is the title's release date (if no date is listed, that means the library has the title)

**Over e-mail or telephone you can give Kris your 3 nominated books by Monday, 12/21/09.

For Jan. meetings--we will narrow down our nominated titles and vote for our top 3 favorites after discussion. Final 2 meetings are 1/14/10 & 1/15/10, from 3:00-5:00 p.m.