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2016 NERDIES: Middle Grade Fiction Winners Announced by Colby Sharp
I love the Nerdies! Each year I have the opportunity to announce the middle grade fiction winners. It is so much fun. Donalyn Miller sends me the list around the time winter break begins. I immediately go through the list to see how many of the books I’ve read. One of my favorite things about the Nerdy list is seeing books that the Nerdy community loved, that I didn’t get a chance to read. This year I’ve read 20 of the 24 books. Not bad!
Without further ado I present to you the 2016 Middle Grade Fiction Nerdies.
All Rise For The Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson
Counting Thyme by Melanie Conklin
Finding Perfect by Elly Swartz
Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Gertie’s Leap to Greatness by Kate Beasley
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz
The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Towers Falling By Jewell Parker Rhodes
Two Naomis by Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich & Audrey Vernick
When The Sea Turned To Silver by Grace Lin
Wish by Barbara O’Connor
Wolf Hallow by Lauren Wolk
Colby Sharp is a third grade teacher in Parma, Michigan. He loves his family, books, teaching, and string cheese. He is the co-founder of the Nerdy Book Club and Nerd Camp. Colby is very excited about making The Creativity Project (2018) with a bunch of his friends.
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I can’t wait to share all of these titles (along with other Nerdy Award winners) with teachers and students in my building.
This is a perfect list!! Love it and am so glad to have been able to have read and shared most of these with my kids! Thanks, Colby!
Hooray!! So many of my favorites are here, especially Paper Wishes, Ashes, Ghost, Pax & Full of Beans!! Thanks, Colby!
This is:
a. a reminder of some great books read
b. a list of books to get for my classroom
c. a to-read list extrodinaire
Thank you!
I loved one of these! Liked another. Couldn’t get past first chapter of another. (And thank goodness we all have different taste.) Several are already on my tbr list, but some I haven’t even heard about. Thanks for all the Nerdies lists–they’re a great starting point for my next round of reading!
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What a great list! We have a few of these on our shelves at home…. but now I know what we need to read next!
Great list. I need to read several of these!
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