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February 16, 2019
Announcing the 2018 Sonderbooks Stand-outs! The Newbery winners have been announced, and now I can talk about all the other wonderful books I read in 2018!
My #1 Sonderbooks Stand-out in General Teen Fiction is Blood Water Paint, by Joy McCullough, which was also a Morris Award Finalist. Based on actual historical events from the 1600s, this verse novel shows us a young woman and artist who stood up to her oppressors.
Happy Reading!
—Sondra Eklund
“To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children's reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field.”
—Frederic Melcher, in his agreement to establish the Newbery Medal, 1922