Newbery medal for best children's book is given to Erin Entrada Kelly's 'The First State of Being' 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 Medal for the year’s outstandin...

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