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 ...

Gilet is diplomatic in response to Marshall’s quotes: “Well, I mean, nice one, for him to say that.” The problem is he has spent his career trying not to be a token and avoiding, as he puts it, ...