The Newbery winner was one I didn't see coming, but one that I thought was really excellent, having just finished The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Kelly Barnhill lives in Minneapolis, and so that just makes her awesome already.
This is a fairy tale, but like all fairy tales, I guess, it also has a lot of reality in it. There are governments that treat citizens like the people of the Protectorate were treated. Fear-based control is all too common. And the love in this book is so real, too. Great book and Newbery worthy for sure. I still think Towers Falling should have won, but I am happy about one. It was a tough year to choose, I bet. There were a lot of good books among those I read and I didn't even read all that many.
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