That's "Class" to You, Buster!

This is so un-school related...but hey, everyone needs a break, and outside of being a teacher, I have a personality!! :)

A Quest...to read all the Newbery Medal winners thus far. My progress (out of 86!! total)

2007--The Higher Power of Lucky (Susan Patron)
2005--Kira-Kira (Cynthia Kadohata)
2004--The Tale of Despereaux (Kate DiCamillo)
1999--Holes (Louis Sachar)
1997--The View from Saturday (E.L. Konigsburg)
1996--The Midwife's Apprentice (Karen Cushman)
1995--Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech)
1994--The Giver (Lois Lowry)
1993--Missing May (Cynthia Rylant)
1992--Shiloh (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor)
1991--Maniac McGee (Jerry Spinelli)
1990--Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
1989--Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (Paul Fleischman)
1988--Lincoln: A Photobiography (Russell Freedman)
1987--The Whipping Boy (Sid Fleischman)
1986--Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)
1984--Dear Mr. Henshaw (Beverly Cleary)
1981--Jacob Have I Loved (Katherine Patterson)
1980--A Gathering of Days; A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 (Joan W. Blos)
1978--Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
1971--Summer of the Swans (Betsy Byars)
1970--Sounder (William H. Armstrong)
1968--From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)
1966--I, Juan de Pareja (Elizabeth Borton de Trevino)
1964--It's Like This, Cat (Emily Neville)
1963--A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
1960--Onion John (Joseph Krumgold)
1952--Ginger Pye (Eleanor Estes)
1950--The Door in the Wall (Marguerite de Angeli)
1948--The Twenty-One Balloons (William Pene DuBois)
1939--Thimble Summer (Elizabeth Enright)
1936--Caddie Woodlawn (Carol Ryrie Brink)
1934--Invincible Louisa (Cornelia Meigs)
1930--Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (Rachel Field)

Monday, April 23, 2007