2017 Books from Newbery Winners
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We’ve covered the Coretta Scott King award.
How about some Newbery? As we know, former winners have a knack for winning again.
Below are all the books coming out this year by past Newbery Medal or Honor winners. If I missed any, let’s hear it in the comments.
The Crying Rocks by Janet Taylor Lisle (May 16)
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World : Squirrel Meets World by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Vitale Mangiatordi (Feb. 7)
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin (Jan. 17)
The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts by Avi (May 16)
Real Friends by Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (May 2)
Writing Radar : Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories by Jack Gantos (Aug 29)
The Great Art Caper by Victoria Jamieson (Jun. 13)
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate (Sept. 26)
All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson (Sept. 5)
Counting Sheep: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet by Jacqueline Kelly, Teagan White, Jennifer L. Meyer (April 4)
Who Gives a Hoot?: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet by Jacqueline Kelly, Jennifer L. Meyer (Oct. 3)
The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Oct. 3)
Forest World by Margarita Engle (Aug. 29)
Just Dance by Patricia MacLachlan (Sept. 12)
Quicksand Pond by Janet Taylor Lisle (May 16)
The Sea Lion by Cynthia Rylant, Preston McDaniels (Mar. 14)
Zack and the Turkey Attack! by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Vivienne To (Oct. 3)
The Player King by Avi (Oct. 17)
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk (May 2)
Genevieve’s War by Patricia Reilly Giff, Becca Stadtlander (Mar. 30)
Bravo! : Poems About Amazing Hispanics by Margarita Engle, Rafael Lopez (Mar. 14)
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander, Ekua Holmes, Various (March 14)
Princess Cora and the Crocodile by Laura Amy Schlitz, Brian Floca (Mar. 28)
Audacity Jones Steals the Show (Audacity Jones #2) by Kirby Larson (Jan. 31)
Who Killed Darius Drake?: A Mystery by Rodman Philbrick (Sept. 26)
Swing it, Sunny by Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm (Sept. 12)
Night Witches: A Novel of World War Two by Kathryn Lasky (Mar. 28)
The Silver Mask (Magisterium, Book 4) by Holly Black, Cassandra Clare (Aug. 29)
Revenge of the Green Banana by Jim Murphy (Jan. 3)
The Playbook : 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life by Kwame Alexander (Feb. 14)
Lights, Camera, Middle School! by Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm (Jul. 4)
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Feb. 7)
The Warden’s Daughter by Jerry Spinelli (Jan. 3)
The Night Garden by Polly Horvath (Sept. 12)
Solo by Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess (Aug. 1)
Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner (May 16)
Wing & Claw #2: Cavern of Secrets by Linda Sue Park, Jim Madsen (Mar. 7)
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia, Frank Morrison (May 9)
Applewhites Coast to Coast by Stephanie S. Tolan, R. J. Tolan (Oct. 17)
The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine (May 2)
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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What an incredible list! Thank you for putting it together.
I just added a bunch of new titles to my ever-growing TBR list! Thanks Travis!
THE CRYING ROCKS is a reprint, I think, and thus ineligible.
Wonderful list – thanks Travis! LOTS of good reading ahead….
Thanks for putting this list together!
This is great, thank you!! So many terrific books!!