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TASK HELP: Winter Challenge 2021
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25.1 - XBM's Task: Read a Newbery
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Wow, for all these years I was sure it was Newberry but I was wrong!
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Don't feel bad, so did I! I also thought that the Newberry Library in Chicago (from The Time Traveler's Wife) was named after the award guy, but I was wrong there, too.
Just checking I can read a book with a one word title for option 3
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Yes, you can.
2022 is the 100th anniversary of the Newbery Awards, a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children”. (Wikipedia) All of my children and grandchildren love to read, in part, due to great books like these.
This is a two-book task. REQUIRED: Please note in your post which 2 options you used.
Option 1: Read a book that has won a Newbery Award, according to this curated list. Newberry Medal Winner Books
Books must meet the SRC guidelines for the use of children's books.
Option 2: Six authors have won the Newbery Medal twice. They are Kate DiCamillo, E. L. Konigsburg, Joseph Krumgold, Lois Lowry, Katherine Paterson, Elizabeth George Speare. Read a book whose author’s share these initial: KDEKLJKLLKPEGS. All initials count. Letters may be used only as many times as they appear in the list of initials.
Option 3: Read a book where the first letter of each title word may be found in John Newbery Medal. Ignore subtitles. There is no minimum word requirement for the title. Letters may be used only as many times as they appear in the target phrase.
Option 4: Some Newbery Medal winners wrote across genres. Read a book by one of the authors on the list (in Option 1) that does not have Childrens as a MPG. (Esther Forbes, Neil Gaiman, Madeleine L'Engle, and Robin McKinley are just a few examples).