Mock Newbery 2026 discussion

Heather mentioned that her students voted When You Reach Me as their Mock Newbery winner. There are others in our group that are holding local or school Mock Newberys. Please, post your results here. I would love to hear what the kids think.

We have our meeting on Friday.

We vote on Monday - I will post their pick.

The Heavy Medal Blog posted their results.

Link:

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Honors

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge
and When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Other results are listed in the comments. The variety is very interesting

ACPL had their Mock Newbery



Kids pick results were

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

With Honor

Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin


The Adult Mock Newbery,

Winner
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

With Honors

Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
and Crossing Stones by Helen Frost

Austin Public Library Results



Winner:
When You Reach Me

Honors:
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
All the Broken Pieces
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

Bergen County Cooperative Library System or BCCLS posted their results



Winner:
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Honors:
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

Hearn Elementary Mock Newbery Club (Frankfort, KY) has chosen:
Newbery Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Honors:The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Here’s How I See It; Here’s How It Is
by Heather Henson
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

I would choose Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose before Written in Bone. I loved Written in Bone, but I believe it is too technical to be a Newberry Honor Book. I guess we will know Monday morning.

Sorry to be posting this so late. The Eva Perry Mock Newbery middle school book club chose their results Jan. 15:
Our 2010 Mock Newbery Winner:

The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
(Also the winner of the ALA’s Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe New Talent Award)

Our 2010 Honors:

The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
(Also the winner of an ALA Newbery Honor award)
Jane in Bloom by Deborah Lytton
Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott