Our Mock Awards shortlists came out for the three awards our group will be considering, the Caldecott, the Newbury, and the Printz. For the Newbery, the titles are: Jefferson’s Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley; Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai; Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt; Hound Dog True by Linda Urban; and Pie by Sarah Weeks. For the Printz, we have: Flip by Martyn Bedford; Queen of Hearts by Martha Brooks; This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel; Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys; Misfit by Jon Skovron; and Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams. There are 35 titles on the Caldecott list; I can send you the list as an attachment if you are interested. The Mock Awards will take place on January 18, 2012 (with a snow date of Jan 19) at Sullivan County BOCES. As we are co-sponsoring this event with the Orange-Ulster BOCES SLS, we have quite a few librarians from outside of Sullivan County participating with us. If you are interested in registering, please see the Sullivan or O-U BOCES catalogs on MyLearningPlan. Participants are expected to read all of the books ahead of time, and let Lynn Miller know which book you would like to nominate for the award. We try to run the day as close to the way the actual awards committees function as possible.
Respectully submitted by Livia Sabourin, Sullivan County Representative, 11/26/2011.
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