Newbery Trash or Treasure

Everything related to the Newbery Medal Winners from 1922 - present

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Congratulations to the 2019 Newbery Award Winner and Honor Books! What a wonderful selection! 

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Tributes Pour In for Richard Peck

There was an outpouring of love and sadness from the children's publishing community when word spread Thursday morning that author Richard Peck had died at age 84. The two-time Newbery Medal winner

Richard Peck wrote one of my favorite Newbery winners, A Year Down Yonder. His works had a great sense of humor with characters that were hard to forget.

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Jason Reynolds: Young Adult's bright prince

He says he didn’t finish a book until he was 17, but now Jason Reynolds is one of the hottest authors around —and determined to show kids it’s cool to read.

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That's the problem. People don't want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.

Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly, 2018 Newbery winner, p 195

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Renée Watson’s young adult novel Piecing Me Together tells the story of Jade, a Portland, Ore., high school student with “coal skin and hula-hoop hips.” Jade has won a scholarship to St. Francis, a private school that’s mostly white. She makes friends and does well, but she also feels the school sees her as some kind of project –  and she doesn’t like it. 

Piecing Me Together recently received the Coretta Scott King Award from the American Library Association, and it’s also a John Newbery Medal honor book. 

Watson tells NPR, “I hope that my books provide space for young people to explore, and say, ‘Yeah, I feel seen.’ “

Check out Watson’s conversation with NPR here. 

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I enjoyed this Newbery Honor book!

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But when you are in food service, you understand that sometimes you're making up for people in your customers' lives who haven't been too nice.

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer, 2001 Newbery Honor, pg 144

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I love watching people sit down. There are ploppers, slammers, sliders, swivelers, and my personal favorite, flutterers, who poise suspended above the seat and move up and down over it before finally lighting.

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer, 2001 Newbery Honor, pg 461

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On low fat entrees: 'They sell well enough, but nobody's too happy after the meal.'

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer, 2001 Newbery Honor, pg 43

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...there are three hard and fast rules that every professional waitress has to follow: (1) The customer is always right. (2) The cook is always right. (3) If the customer and the cook disagree, and you can't settle it, your tip is history.

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer, 2001 Newbery Honor, pg 43

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The things that your eyes see plainly and can't forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination. Imagination has a poor memory; it slinks away and goes blurry. Eyes remember for much longer

Anna Dressed in Blood, p. 236

Not a Newbery winner, but a great read.

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We're not children, neither of us. We don't believe in fairy tales. And if we did, who would we be? Not Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty. I slice murder victims' heads off and Anna stretches skin until it rips, she snaps bones like green branches into smaller and smaller pieces. We'd be the fricking dragon and the wicked fairy.

Anna Dressed in Blood, p. 234

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When he put together his bunch of provisions, he never thought about bringing sunblock. Aragorn never wore sunblock. Taran never wore sunblock. Percy never wore sunblock. Despite all that precedent for going without, he was pretty sure his nose would be lobster red the next time he looked in the mirror.

Doll Bones by Holly Black

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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Doll Bones by Holly Brown

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Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, 2002 Newbery Honor winner, p 37

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And at heart I was a pacifist. Well, not at heart. My mother says no one is a pacifist at heart. At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Harvath, 2002 Newbery Honor, p 18

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I just finished The Girl Who Drank The Moon. It was beautiful. Fans of Diana Wynne Jones will love it.

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Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth written and illustrated by E. L. Konigsburg, 1968 Newbery Honor, p 35    

Illustration of a librarian helping a child in the ‘60s.