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 ...

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 ...