Adult Mock Newbery 2012 List #3

Here are your November Top Ten!  

We've added 30 books to the Adult Mock Newbery list to date! If you haven't started reading, now is the time.  We need to know what you think of these titles!  Click on the title to add to the discussion!

1. Bootleg by Karen Blumenthal
2. Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
3. Chime by Franny Billingsley
4. Drawing From Memory by Allen Say
5. Freedom Stone by Jeffrey Kluger
6. Lunch Box Dream by Tony Abbott
7. Monster Calls, A by Patrick Ness
8. Pie by Sarah Weeks
9. Secrets at Sea by Richard Peck
10. Trapped by Marc Aronson

Don't forget to sign up for our in-person final discussion and vote!  The Adult Mock Newbery Club meeting will be held on January 21, 2012 from 10:00am - 5:00pm in the Children's Services Storytime Room at the Main Library. Register HERE, if you haven't already done so!

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Candlewick Press
2011
204p.

Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.