Membership in the Martin Middle School Newbery Club is a unique opportunity for enthusiastic students to read and discuss newly published books written for middle grade readers. Our purpose is to select the one "most distinguished" book published during the year, using official Newbery guidelines. We will be cooperating with a countywide effort to conduct mock Newbery book clubs in middle schools. Our vote will take place in January, just prior to that of the Newbery Committee of the American Library Association, and will result in the book winning the coveted Martin Middle Newbery Award for this year.

Become a member of the Mock Newbery Club, and help choose the 2009 winner! Click here for an APPLICATION for new members!

And the winner is... Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz

On the morning of January 14th, members of Martin's Mock Newbery Club gathered in the Media Center and heard this announcement view a live web cast from teh ALA Awards ceremony in Philadelphia. Although this nonfiction work was not one of the club's picks, members were excited to hear that one of their favorites, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, an innovative book by Brian Selznick, had captured the Caldecott Medal. Martin's 2008 winners and the actual Newbery winners are listed below.

Mock Newbery Winners:

Newbery Medal: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Honor Books: The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Book of a Thousand Days, and Dragon's Keep

2008 Newbery Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

Newbery Honor Books: The Wednesday Wars, Feathers, Elijah of Buxton (also Coretta Scott King winner)