Newbery?

The Newbery Award will be announced at the end of January and I will be blessed once again to be there!  This will be my third time, God willing.  Goodreads has a list of books tagged as Mock Newbery Books and Liar and Spy is third on the list.  When You Reach Me won the Newbery and wow, I just did not enjoy that book at all.  I disliked it so much I didn't want to read L and S at all.  But I broke down because I saw it sitting on the shelf so many times, looking so lonesome and I read it today, in one sitting and it wasn't nearly as bad as WYRM.  I was really, really enjoying it, until the end.  I just didn't buy into it and it just went flat for me.  This is the story of Georges and his life now that his family has moved from their house to an apartment.  There is bullying and friend-making and friend-losing and quirky characters.  I did love Georges a lot.  And his friend Safer, too.  But I don't know.  Just not my thing.