The Mock Newbery group is the best place to find out about the great new books being published.

Join us while we search for next years Newbery award winning books.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

I deleted a bunch of books that were ineligible. Sigh--Mockingjay hasn't even been released yet, and no ARCs are floating around, yet it's already topping the list.

Love hearing from others about new books. Hope it continues into this year.

Interesting. The actual Newbery Winner was not nominated by any Goodreads reader for this list. The book that received the most votes here not only didn't win the Newbery or receive Honors, it seems to have gotten virtually no ALA award recognition. I wonder how often that has happened in the past?

David wrote: "Interesting. The actual Newbery Winner was not nominated by any Goodreads reader for this list. The book that received the most votes here not only didn't win the Newbery or receive Honors, it seem..."

It is interesting.

It isn't particularly remarkable. The Graveyard Book and When You Reach Me were both high up on their years' lists, but there were books above them that didn't receive any ALA awards--not surprising, since this poll is largely for popularity for most of the voters and not for ALA criteria. This year all of the Newbery Honor books got quite a lot of votes here, which hasn't been the case in other years. Moon Over Manifest may not have been on this list before the awards were announced, but it was mentioned in several other Newbery prediction places online.

Some of these weren't eligible anyway.

Only a few books here weren't eligible, and at the time of the award, everything here was (I keep an eye on it and remove ineligible books until the award is given). Unfortunately, we can't close the poll after it is no longer relevant.

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