Newbery Yippee

I woke up this morning to the happy news that When You Reach Me won the Newbery Award. I was rooting for it! Here's what I had to say about it in September:

…I want to tell you all about how much I enjoyed Rebecca Stead's excellent middle-grade novel, When You Reach Me—but if I say anything, practically anything at all, I'll give away things I'd rather you discovered yourself in the pages of the book, in the perfect way Stead has chosen to reveal them to you. I can say that it's about a girl...