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Kids’ Favorite Books: Top 100 Lists
What are kids–your audience–reading today? “The Accelerated Reader Real Time database includes book-reading records for more than 8.6 million students from 27,240 schools nationwide who read more than 283 million books during the 2011-2012 school year.” Renaissance Learning, the folks who do the Accelerated Reader program and testing, has just issued the 2013 report, “What…
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2013 Newbery Awards
Note: This is a rerun of a post I did two years ago. The reality of delayed recognition still means that authors must somehow make it through the early days of a book’s life cycle, without knowing if anyone will like it or not. The winner of the 2013 Newbery has probably just gotten that…