Circus Mirandus has cropped up on a few Mock Newbery lists so I was dying to get my hands on it, not to mention that people have compared it...

When I saw that Rebecca Stead was coming out with a new book, I was ecstatic. And then I was even more excited  when I got an e-ARC of the b...

Echo is the newest children's book by Pam Munoz Ryan, and it immediately received possible Newbery buzz, so I added it to my list. It i...

Fish in a Tree is a book that I added to my list after I heard some Newbery buzz surrounding it. As a daughter of a special education teac...

For those of you non-library, non-youth book award folks, Monday was a day I have been looking forward to since last year: the American Libr...

The Thing About Luck  was this year's National Book Award winner and was on many mock Newbery groups list for their Newbery selection as...

Mix together one part Willy Wonka and one part library book nerdery and another part awesome trivia and gaming and you'll have  Escape ...

For the past five months I've been reading any children's chapter book published in 2013 that has any hint of winning the Newbery Aw...

 Obsessed. That is the easiest way to describe my feelings toward  Navigating Early . It's one of the last Newbery potential books I pic...

Counting by 7s is one of the books suggested by my Mock Newbery group for possibilities for the 2014 Newbery Award.  My library has it c...