Every year on Heavy Medal we finish with a Mock Newbery Election. This year's process will include the formation of the Heavy Medal Award Committee in December, a booklist of 15 finalists, and a live discussion and ballot on Zoom. If you're thinking you might be interested in taking part, here are some details and a rough timeline.

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Biographies and memoirs get to the heart of subjects’ lives and are often a gateway for readers who aren’t naturally drawn to nonfiction. These titles provide sliding doors that teens can step through—entryways into lives that have often gone unsung and untold.

Yesterday the blog Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast talked about the upcoming picture book ROOM FOR EVERYONE. Today, I have an interview with the author.

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I don’t want to go into spoilers or ruin any of the surprises in Ski Weekend but you will absolutely find little gems throughout the pages that can mean the difference between life and death in a cold weather survival scenario.

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A review of THE GENIUS UNDER THE TABLE by Eugene Yelchin.

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You last saw rock star Rhett Miller when he paired with Dan on No More Poems! Now they're back together on a new 2022 title that involves quite the Faustian deal.

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You last saw rock star Rhett Miller when he paired with Dan on No More Poems! Now they're back together on a new 2022 title that involves quite the Faustian deal.

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Looking for a Jumbie is Baptiste’s debut picturebook that brings the folklore of jumbies to young readers expanding the audience for these folkloric stories to bring children stories outside of European roots.

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My October newsletter is out

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