From: Lindsay, Nina <nlindsay>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:21:27 -0800

Mock Newbery Discussion

Saturday January 7, 2006 1pm-5pm

Oakland Public Library, Main Library Auditorium

125 14th Street (near Lake Merritt & 12th st BART stations)

 

Reading List (in no particular order...)

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Harry Sue by Sue Stauffacher

Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester

Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson

The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich

The Old Country by Mordecai Gerstein

 

Please

* RSVP to nlindsay at oaklandlibrary.org
<mailto:nlindsay at oaklandlibrary.org>

* read the Newbery Award Criteria, at http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/new beryterms/newberyterms.htm
<http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/ne wberyterms/newberyterms.htm>

* read all ten titles, with these criteria in mind. You may want to keep notes for discussion.

 

RSVP and questions to: Nina Lindsay

nlindsay at oaklandlibrary.org <mailto:nlindsay at oaklandlibrary.org>
(510)238-3615

 

Hope to see you there!!

 

 

Nina Lindsay, Librarian

Children's Room

Oakland Public Library

125 14th Street

Oakland CA 94612

(510) 238-3615

fax (510) 238-6865

nlindsay at oaklandlibrary.org

 
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