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=media type="custom" key="5190149"= = = = = =Welcome to West Allis/West Milwaukee's Mock Newbery 2010.= =Grade 8= =The winner of our combined 6-8th grade Mock Newbery is Catching Fire. The honor books are The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had and Al Capone Shines My Shoes. Are you happy with the voting results?= =The REAL NEWBERY goes to When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. Honor Books are: Claudette Colvin, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, When the Mountain Meets the Moon and The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg. Are you happy with the committee's choices?=

=Lincoln, West Milwaukee and Frank Lloyd Wright Intermediate Schools are reading and discussing and finally choosing the book we feel should win the 2010 John Newbery medal. We will be working with D.C. Everest Middle School in Schofield, WI. Reading from the same list of titles, we will skype with the students at D. C. Everest as we discuss which books we think best meet the criteria of the Newbery. Each book listed to the left is on our list of potential winners. Students will be invited to be members of this blog and will add their comments to the Discussion tab on the book's page. One of the first projects for our students will be to write a "blurb" about the book they read and polish it for placement on the book's wiki page. A picture of the book cover will also be added to the first page by the students. media type="custom" key="4979505" Created with www.wordle.net These are the 2009 books that Kirkus and PW (both magazines that review books) picked as the best: PURPLE HEART by Patricia McCormick TALES FROM OUTER SUBURBIAN by Shaun Tan MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD by Francisco Stork JOHN BROWN by John Hendrix SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM by Marily Nelson WINTERGIRLS by Laurie Halse Anderson ALL THE WORLD by Liz Scanlon THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Jerry Pinkney **CLAUDETTE COLVIN** by Phillip Hoose MARCHING FOR FREEDOM by Elizabeth Partridge THE GREAT AND ONLY BARNUM by Candace Fleming IF I STAY by Gayle Forman **A SEASON OF GIFTS** by Richard Peck **WHEN YOU REACH ME** by Rebecca Stead FIRE by Kristin Cashore **CATCHING FIRE** by Suzanne Collins **THE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE** by Jacquline Kelly The ones that match our list are in bold type. Will the Newbery be a book we didn't read???=

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