And the Winner is….

The book and media awards were announced yesterday and every year I am so excited to hear who the winners will be. 

The Newbery Award definitely caught me off guard this year.  I was actually trying very hard to keep up with the Newbery buzz and reading a lot of the novels that were being talked about amongst other bloggers, librarians, and journals.  And after all that hard work… the Newbery was awarded to a book that I didn’t even read!  Thankfully, the library I work in already had two copies so I grabbed one right away yesterday and hope to read it by this weekend.

And if you haven’t heard, the Newbery Award was given to Jack Gantos, a deserving author, for his novel, Dead End in Norvelt.