Adult Mock Newbery 2012 List #2

Here are ten more titles for your consideration!



Have you read these yet?  What are you waiting for!?? Read these titles and be ready to discuss them at our Adult Mock Newbery meeting in January.



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City of Orphans by Avi

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Flesh and Blood So Cheap by Albert Marrin 

The Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson

Hound Dog True by Linda Urban 

Mo Wren, Lost and Found by Tricia Springstubb

The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill

The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

True...Sort of by Katherine Hannigan

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

The Adult Mock Newbery Club meeting will be held on January 21, 2012 from 10:00am - 5:00pm in the Children's Services Storytime Room at the Main Library.  Register HERE, if you haven't already done so!

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Scholastic Press

2011

416p.

Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against
Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races,
both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to
make it to the finish line.

Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson

Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson

Candlewick Press

2011

288p.

A magical amulet brings power and despair to those who touch it.

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Farrar Strauss Giroux

2011

341p.



In the historic town of Norvelt,
Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962
grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly
neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead,
molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving,
lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.