{"id":3678,"date":"2010-12-20T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2010-12-20T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T11:00:03","slug":"mock-newbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=3678","title":{"rendered":"Mock Newbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote a Mock Caldecott post, so it&#8217;s only fair to have a Mock Newbery one, as well. This is always harder for me because, well, it just is. But I will soldier on and make some predictions. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/forge1-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3680\" style=\"margin: 9px\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/forge1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"240\" \/>(<\/a>Elizabeth also plans to post her Newbery and Caldecott thoughts soon.)<br \/>\nThe winner is, or should be (in my opinion, of course): <em>Forge<\/em> by Laurie Halse Anderson. I think she should have won for <em>Chains<\/em> (or at least gotten an Honor). This series is outstanding and it&#8217;s historical fiction at its best.<br \/>\nThe honorees:<br \/>\n&#8211;<em> The Keeper<\/em> by Kathi Appelt<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Zora and Me <\/em>by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>One Crazy Summer<\/em> by Rita Williams-Garcia<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Touch Blue <\/em>by Cynthia Lord<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>The Dreamer<\/em> by Pam Mu\u00f1oz Ryan<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Countdown<\/em> by Deborah Wiles<br \/>\nWho do you think will win? What book is your favorite that you&#8217;d love to see win? As always, I&#8217;ll have a post-award post where I mention the person who got the most right &#8211; that person will get the coveted ShelfTalker Shout Out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote a Mock Caldecott post, so it&rsquo;s only fair to have a Mock Newbery one, as well. This is always harder for me because, well, it just is. But I will soldier on and make some predictions. (Elizabeth also plans to post her Newbery and Caldecott thoughts soon.) The winner is, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}