Award Winners At It Again: New Kids’ Books November 2015 Edition
It is always exciting when one of your favourite authors releases a new book. This fall, three award-winning authors (and three of my favourites!) have released their newest novels for children. These follow-ups are sure to be hits and I for one am looking forward to getting my hands on them!
Louis Sachar won'the American Library Association’s coveted Newbery Medal for his wildly popular novel Holes.
Look for his latest novel Fuzzy Mud.
Fifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodbridge Academy together since elementary school. But their routine is disrupted when bully Chad Wilson challenges Marshall to a fight. To avoid the conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. Tamaya reluctantly follows. They soon get lost, and they find trouble. Bigger trouble than anyone could ever have imagined.
Rebecca Stead won'the Newbery Medal in 2010 for her novel When You Reach Me.
Check out another story by this author set on the Upper West Side of New York City, Goodbye Stranger.
Bridge is an accident survivor who's wondering why she's still alive. Emily has new curves and an almost-boyfriend. Tabitha sees through everybody's games — or so she tells the world. The three girls are best friends with one rule: No fighting. Can it get them through seventh grade?
Finally Brian Selznick’s ground-breaking novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures won him the 2008 Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustrations.
His newest illustrated novel is The Marvels.
The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London'theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London.
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