Anderson's 2013 Mock Newbery Winners



The AB Mock Newbery Award Winners, 2013
The Winner:  Wonder by R. J. Palacio

The Honor Books: (in winning order)

1. The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
2. One For the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt        
3. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate       
4. Breathing Room by Marsha Hayles
5. On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming   

Congratulations to our Mock Newbery student readers - we had 795 young people voting this year!  All did a really fine job of reading critically and with an eye for excellence in literature.  Our readers devoured 5447 books while reading for this program. Kudos to the educators, staff and volunteers at our 20 participating schools:

Indian Prairie SD 204:  Crone MS, Hill MS
Naperville SD 203: Jefferson JH, Kennedy JH, Lincoln JH, Madison JH, Washington JH
Plainfield CCSD 202:  Timber Ridge MS
Deerfield SD 109: Alan Shepard MS
Palatine SD 15: Hunting Ridge School
SD 54: Lincoln Prairie School
Cass SD 63: Cass JH
Woodridge SD 68: Meadowview
Downers Grove SD 58: Henry Puffer School
Orland SD 135- Orland Junior High
Wheaton SD 200- Monroe MS  
Hinsdale D181: Hinsdale MS, Clarendon Hills MS
Notre Dame School, Clarendon Hills
St. Rafael School, Naperville

A special salute to Cass Jr. High Clarendon Middle School and Kennedy Jr. High readers, who averaged 11+ books read per voter!
Book List

Almost Home (Hardcover)

By Joan Bauer
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Published: Viking Juvenile, 9/2012
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Almost Home by Joan Bauer Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.

Breathing Room (Hardcover)

By Marsha Hayles
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 8/2012
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Breathing Room by Marsha Hayles In 1940, thirteen-year-old Evvy Hoffmeister and her newfound friends struggle to get well at Loon Lake Sanatorium, where they are being treated for tuberculosis.

The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls (Hardcover)

By Claire Legrand, Sarah Watts
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 8/2012
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The Cavendish Home For Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand YA Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.

Child of the Mountains (Hardcover)

By Marilyn Sue Shank
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 4/2012
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Child of the Mountains by Marilyn Sue Shank Lidia YA
is raised poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, her younger brother, BJ--who has cystic fibrosis--and her Gran in the early 1950s, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.

Crow (Hardcover)

By Barbara Wright
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1/2012
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Crow by Barbara Wright Moses YA
Thomas's summer vacation in 1898 does not go as planned, and while he deals with family problems and fickle friends, Moses comes to be more aware of the escalating tension between the African American and white communities of Wilmington, North Carolina.

A Diamond in the Desert (Hardcover)

By Kathryn Fitzmaurice
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Published: Viking Juvenile, 2/2012
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Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

The Dogs of Winter (Hardcover)

By Bobbie Pyron
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Published: Arthur A. Levine Books, 10/2012
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The Dogs of Winter by Bobbie Pryon Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs.

The False Prince: Book 1 of the Ascendance Trilogy (Hardcover)

By Jennifer A. Nielsen
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ISBN-13: 9780545284134
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Published: Scholastic Press, 4/2012
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The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.

Kepler's Dream (Hardcover)

By Juliet Bell
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ISBN-13: 9780399256455
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Published: Putnam Juvenile, 5/2012
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Kepler’s Dream by Juliet Bell While her mother undergoes radical cancer treatment, eleven-year-old Ella stays with her father's mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she learns about grammar and family history, and helps investigate the theft of an extremely rare book from her grandmother's library.

Laugh with the Moon (Hardcover)

By Shana Burg
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 6/2012
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Laugh With the Moon by Shana Burg Grieving after her mother’s recent death, 13-year-old Clare reluctantly travels with her father from Massachusetts to spend nine weeks in a remote village in Malawi, where new friends and experiences help open her mind and heart.

Liar & Spy (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Stead
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ISBN-13: 9780385737432
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Published: Wendy Lamb Books, 8/2012
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Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.

The Lions of Little Rock (Hardcover)

By Kristin Levine
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Published: Putnam Juvenile, 1/2012
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The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine Twelve-year-old Marlee develops a strong friendship with Liz, the new girl in school, but when Liz suddenly stops attending school and Marlee hears a rumor that her friend is actually an African American girl passing herself off as white, the two young girls must decide whether their friendship is worth taking on integration and the dangers it could bring to their families.

On the Day I Died: Stories from the Grave (Hardcover)

By Candace Fleming
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Published: Schwartz & Wade, 7/2012
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On the Day I Died: Stories From the Grave by Candace Fleming In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.

The One and Only Ivan (Hardcover)

By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao
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Published: HarperCollins, 1/2012
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The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

One for the Murphys (Hardcover)

By Lynda Hunt
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books, 5/2012
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One For the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt Carley struggles with being open to love after she suffers a betrayal that forces her to move in with a foster family.

The Peculiar (Hardcover)

By Stefan Bachmann
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ISBN-13: 9780062195180
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Published: Greenwillow Books, 9/2012
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The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann Changeling Bartholomew Kettle, half-human and half-faery, witnesses another changeling being kidnapped, and, after hearing of the bodies of changelings being found dead and marked with a red tattoo, he realizes he is the next target and must figure out a way to stay alive.

Safekeeping (Hardcover)

By Karen Hesse
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Published: Feiwel & Friends, 9/2012
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Safekeeping by Karen Hesse YA Radley returns home amid martial law to find her parents missing and her home abandoned. Not knowing whom to trust, she sets out on foot to Canada, befriending a reticent girl along the way. The two manage to cross into Canada, where they begin a new, primitive life, relying on their wits and small acts of kindness from strangers.

Seraphina (Hardcover)

By Rachel Hartman
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers, 5/2012
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Seraphina by Rachel Hartman YA In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.

The Seven Tales of Trinket (Hardcover)

By Shelley Moore Thomas
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 9/2012
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The Seven Tales of Trinket by Shelley Moore Thomas Guided by a tattered map, accompanied by Thomas the Pig Boy, and inspired by the storyteller's blood that thrums through her veins, eleven-year-old Trinket searches for the seven stories she needs to become a bard like her father, who disappeared years before.

Shadow on the Mountain (Hardcover)

By Margi Preus
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Published: Harry N. Abrams, 9/2012
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Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.

Splendors and Glooms (Hardcover)

By Laura Amy Schlitz
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Published: Candlewick, 8/2012
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Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.

Summer and Bird (Hardcover)

By Katherine Catmull
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Published: Dutton Juvenile, 10/2012
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Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull When their parents disappear in the middle of the night, young sisters Summer and Bird set off on a quest to find them using a cryptic picture message from their mother.

The Unfortunate Son (Hardcover)

By Constance Leeds
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ISBN-13: 9780670013982
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Published: Viking Juvenile, 6/2012
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The Unfortunate Son by Constance Leeds
Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.

The Wild Book (Hardcover)

By Margarita Engle
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ISBN-13: 9780547581316
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Published: Harcourt Children's Books, 3/2012
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The Wild Book by Margarita Engle In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.

Wonder (Hardcover)

By R. J. Palacio
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ISBN-13: 9780375869020
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2/2012
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Wonder by R. J. Palacio Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.