The following is a list of books which
could be 2008 Newbery Award winners. Who do you think will win?
| AUTHOR | TITLE | PAGES | PUBLISHER |
| Aronson, Marc | Up Close: Robert F. Kennedy, a Twentieth Century Life | 204 | Viking |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Jack Plank Tells Tales | 128 | Michael di Capua Books |
| Blume, Lesley M. M. | The Rising Star of Rusty Nail | 270 | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Ellsworth, Loretta | In Search of Mockingbird | 181 | Henry Holt |
| George, Jessica Day | Dragon Slippers | 324 | Bloomsbury |
| Harper, Charise Mericle | Just Grace | 138 | Houghton Mifflin |
| Hest, Amy | Remembering Mrs. Rossi | 143 | Candlewick |
| Kadohata, Cynthia | Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam | 312 | Atheneum |
| Kerley, Barbara | Greetings from Planet Earth | 246 | Scholastic |
| Kinney, Jeff | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | 217 | Amulet Books |
| Lyons, Mary E. | Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs | 197 | Atheneum |
| Madden, Kerry | Louisiana's Song | 278 | Viking |
| McKissack, Pat | A Friendship for Today | 172 | Scholastic |
| Miller, Sarah | Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller | 208 | Atheneum |
| O'Connor, Barbara | How to Steal a Dog | 170 | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| Peck, Richard | On the Wings of Heroes | 148 | Dial |
| Pennypacker, Sara | The Talented Clementine | 137 | Hyperion |
| Schmidt, Gary D. | The Wednesday Wars | 264 | Clarion Books |
| Seeger, Laura Vaccaro | Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories | unpaged | Roaring Brook Press |
| Selznick, Brian | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | 533 | Scholastic Press |
| Stewart, Trenton Lee | The Mysterious Benedict Society | 485 | Little, Brown |
| Tarshis, Lauren | Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree | 199 | Dial Books |
| White, Ruth | Way Down Deep | 197 | Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
| Wilson, N. D. | Leepike Ridge | 224 | Random House |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Feathers | 118 | G. P. Putnam's Sons |