Welcome to another year of the Newbery Reading Challenge! Newbery and Caldecott books are fun to read - whether it's our first time experiencing them, or we're revisiting them from our childhood. If you want to challenge yourself to read more Newbery and Caldecott books this year, then you have found the right place!
Here are the rules:
Each book you read is worth points. You get:
In addition to that, you pick a level to aim for:
You can get to this level with any combination of points you want. You can read all Newbery Medal winners. You can throw in a few Honor Books. If you want, you can even read 75 Caldecott Medal winners! How you get to your point level is totally up to you.
Also, anywhere in the point range for your level counts as completing that level. So for example, if you signed up for the Avi level and read 46 points' worth of books, then you have completed that level!
Here are the rules:
Each book you read is worth points. You get:
- 3 points for a Newbery Medal Winner
- 2 points for a Newbery Honor Book
- 1 point for a Caldecott Book (Both Medal winners and Honor books are worth a point.)
In addition to that, you pick a level to aim for:
- L'Engle: 15 - 29 points
- Spinelli: 30 - 44 points
- Avi: 45 - 59 points
- Lowry: 60 - 74 points
- Konigsburg: 75+ points
You can get to this level with any combination of points you want. You can read all Newbery Medal winners. You can throw in a few Honor Books. If you want, you can even read 75 Caldecott Medal winners! How you get to your point level is totally up to you.
Also, anywhere in the point range for your level counts as completing that level. So for example, if you signed up for the Avi level and read 46 points' worth of books, then you have completed that level!
List of Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books
List of Caldecott Medal Winners & Honor Books
My Books:
- Saturday--Oge Mora (1 point)
- Elijah of Buxton--Christopher Paul Curtis (2 points)
- The Red Book--Barbara Lehman (1 point)
- The Planet of Junior Brown--Virginia Hamilton (2 points)
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type--Doreen Cronin (1 point)
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses--Paul Gable (1 point)
- The Twenty-One Balloons--William Pene du Bois (3 points)
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears--James Marshall (1 point)
- Creepy Carrots!--Aaron Reynolds (1 point)
- The Witches of Worm--Zilpha Keatly Snyder (2 points)
- All the World--Liz Garton Scanlon (1 point)
- M.C. Higgins, the Great--Virginia Hamilton (3 points)
Challenge competed on December 8. Total 19 points.
Good luck - and thanks for the link to the medal/award winning books.
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