Middle School Librarian Roxanne Feldman organized a Dalton Faculty Mock Newbery Committee, along with managing Heavy Medal, an online Mock Newbery Blog to share book reviews. Seven out of eleven books read by the Faculty book group received high profile recognition at the Youth Media Award press conference. Click here to read the entire press release for many more award winners, including the Alex Awards which are 10 books written for adults that also appeal to young adults.


Titles On Our Discussion List:

• Poet X won both the Printz Award (for Young Adults) and the Pura Belpre Award (for Latino authors) (One of our Honor titles)
• Sweep won The Sydney Taylor Book Award (for Jewish heritage) (Our Winner)
• Front Desk won the APALA (Asian Pacific American Library Association) Children's Category
• The Girl Who Drew Butterflies won Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children
• The Season of Styx Malone received an Honor for Coretta Scott King Award (African American author/literature)