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 ...

She was brave and creative while I was plodding, intensely competitive and conscientious. I was on edge, fearful, full of doubt about how to be someone who mattered – so I looked to Dod. For both Mary ...