Newbery Challenge

I love to read, so when this Newbery Challenge was presented at the school where I work before the summer began, I hopped on board! The challenge is to read (or re-read) 13 Newbery Medal or Honor books by December 13, 2013.

The John Newbery Medal is awarded each year by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. So, the 2013 medal is awarded to a novel published in 2012.

I picked my 13 books, and am going to try to read as many as I can before the busy school year begins (and Team Winters has literally every weekend in September booked with something to do). Want to motivate my students to do it too, I love instilling a love for reading!

1. 2013 Medal Winner: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate 8/14/13
2. 2012 Medal Winner: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
3. 2011 Medal Winner: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
4. 2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
5. 2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins 11/21/13
6. 2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck 10/1/13
7. 1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 12/5/13
8. 1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry 11/17/13
9. 1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
10. 1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
11. 1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
12. 1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
13. 1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg 8/20/13