Award Season is Just Around the Corner

Get ready for award season hype!

Not the Oscars, not the Grammys – but the Newbery!

Mockingbird vs. The Night Fairy

The Newbery Medal is awarded every year by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children’s book published in the previous year; winners are announced in January of the New Year. In 1922, when the first Newbery medal was awarded, the purpose of the award was “to encourage original creative work in the field of books for children.” Each year, librarians read, select and debate children’s books, and select a winner, and a few “runner’s up”, called Newbery Honor Books. Members of the Newbery committee must consider all types of literature, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, even plays. View the full list of Newbery Award and Honor Books, from 1922-Present.

Check out some of the books we think are Newbery contenders:

She's voting for One Crazy Summer

Countdown

Forge

How I Nicky Flynn Finally Got a Life (And a Dog)

Keeper

Mockingbird

The Night Fairy

One Crazy Summer

Out of My Mind

Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schultz

Turtle in Paradise

Have a Newbery assignment coming up? View our Newbery Bibliography here, it highlights some of our favorites!

Monster Mania!

Roar!

Halloween is right around the corner and it's that time of year when it's fun to get a little scare or laugh a bit about a silly monster or creature! The days are shorter and cooler and it's a good idea to snuggle up with somebody and enjoy a book or two!

Here are some of our favorites...

Tickle Monster by Josie Bissett

Bump in the Night by Edward Hemingway

Bye-Bye, Big Bad Bullybug! by Ed Emberley

There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer

Even Monsters Need Haircuts by Matthew McElligot

The Monster Trap by Dean Morrissey

Goodnight Goon: a Petrifying Parody by Michael Rex

Jumpy Jack and Googily by Meg Rosoff

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Lima Bean Monster by Dan Yaccarino



Scary...but cute!

Good Reads: 13 Treasures

Of course fairies exists, but there are good ones and evil ones! It seems as though thirteen-year-old Tanya is the only one that can see them! Though her mother cannot see the evil fairies that rouse Tanya from her sleep, torturing her at the slightest mention of their existence, they are as real to the thirteen-year-old as anything she's ever known. If she could wish them away, she would, but instead she is sent away to live at her grandmother's secluded countryside manor...

There is much to explore and even more to fear in the woods surrounding the estate. But the forest isn't the only source of dark secrets and Tanya soon finds herself entangled in a mystery that could trap her in the fairy realm forever.

Check out 13 Treasures and read this intriguing book which blends mystery and fantasy together!

LEGO Club Has Begun!

Children, no matter what gender they are, love to build things with LEGOs, it is not just for boys! Building is not just fun, it serves a purpose in your child's development. This month, when LEGO club started, many of the kids came in with ideas of what to build that they had been thinking about all summer! Check out some of these awesome creations that they are currently working on! Registration for Nesconset's November sessions start Tuesday the 19th or sign-up for King's Park Saturday session!