The Members of the Newbery Club met on December 6 to discuss their favorite books of the year and prepared the following slate of books for our Mock Newbery Election. Plan to attend our final meeting to consider your favorite books published in the year 2005. We will begin our discussion with the books starred on the list below.  If a book you support is not on the list contact Mrs. Gebel.

Northport-East Northport Public Library Mock Newbery Election Friday, 1/6/06

Central Heating by Marilyn Singer
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
*Crooked River by Shelley Pearsall
Day of Tears by Julius Lester
Each Little Bird That Sings by Debbie Wiles
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Friendship According to Humphrey by Betty Birnes
*Gentle’s Holler by Kerry Madden
The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Sid Fleischman
Gnat Stokes and the Foggy Bottom Swamp Queen
by Sally M. Keehn
Good Brother, Bad Brother by James Cross Giblin
Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
*Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor
Jigsaw Pony by Jessica Haas
*King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
Leonardo da Vinci by Kathleen Krull
*The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Midnight Rider by Joan Hiatt Harlow
Prairie Builders by Sneed B. Collard
The Real Revolution: the global story of American independence by Marc Aronson
Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach
*Song of the Water Boatman by Joyce Sidman
*Stumptown Kid by Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley
*The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
*Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
The Wedding Planners Daughter by Coleen Murtagh Paratore
*Whittington by Alan Armstrong