From Rebecca Stead's Newbery Acceptance Speech
The people in books told me things that the real people in my life either wouldn't admit or didn't realize I needed to know in the first place. And the more I read, the more I thought about writing my own stories, with my own kinds of truth in them. By the time I was nine, I knew I wanted to write. But I didn't tell anyone, because it was too wild
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her novel sounds WAY more interesting than the novel that won this year.
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...I do think it won because it benefited from an association with A Wrinkle in Time, though.
Seriously, WHAT IS UP with this year's winners? Printz awards - well, predictably dark. (The year that Jellicoe Road won? AH, A CHERISHED MEMORY.) But the Newberys were all over the place. My library doesn't own copies of some of them.
There are some years that the Newberys are just forgotten, you know? This is how it feels to live through one of those years. (Wow, that makes it sound like such ~heavy stuff.)
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