Adult Mock Newbery 2012 List #2

Here are ten more titles for your consideration!

Have you read these yet?  What are you waiting for!?? Read these titles and be ready to discuss them at our Adult Mock Newbery meeting in January.

Click on each link to add your voice to the discussion!

City of Orphans by Avi

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Flesh and Blood So Cheap by Albert Marrin 

The Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson

Hound Dog True by Linda Urban 

Mo Wren, Lost and Found by Tricia Springstubb

The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill

The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

True...Sort of by Katherine Hannigan

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

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!

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Farrar Strauss Giroux
2011
341p.

In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.