N EW YORK (AP) — Erin Entrada Kelly's “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery ...

Named after an 18th-century English bookseller named John Newbery, it became the first children’s book award in the world. Throughout the past century, the ALA has bestowed the honor on timeless ...

NEW YORK — Meg Medina, the latest recipient of the John Newbery Medal, wrote her prize-winning children’s book with a special intensity. “There are so many negative characterizations these days of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery ...