#FirstStateofBeing is 2025 Newbery Award by 2x winner #ErinEntradaKelly. Set in 1999 in a quiet DE town, we meet Michael who likes to mind his own biz like stockpiling to survive Y2K. Life changes when a stranger shows up who might just be a time traveler from the future.
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September 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
#FirstStateofBeing is 2025 Newbery Award by 2x winner #ErinEntradaKelly. Set in 1999 in a quiet DE town, we meet Michael who likes to mind his own biz like stockpiling to survive Y2K. Life changes when a stranger shows up who might just be a time traveler from the future.
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This was a great surprise. Third Place Books, thanks for sharing your resources.
#AANHPI#erinentradakelly#philippines#WWII#spies#guerillafighters#joeyguerrero#booksky
#AANHPI#erinentradakelly#philippines#WWII#spies#guerillafighters#joeyguerrero#booksky
May 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This was a great surprise. Third Place Books, thanks for sharing your resources.
#AANHPI#erinentradakelly#philippines#WWII#spies#guerillafighters#joeyguerrero#booksky
#AANHPI#erinentradakelly#philippines#WWII#spies#guerillafighters#joeyguerrero#booksky
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Battle of the books starts today! The First State of Being vs BenBee and the Teacher Griefer. Vote before 4pm. @erinentrada.bsky.social @kaholt.bsky.social #thefirststateofbeing #benbeeandtheteachergriefer #erinentradakelly #kaholt #battleofthebooks #middleschoollibrary #readMG #readYA #marchmadness
March 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Battle of the books starts today! The First State of Being vs BenBee and the Teacher Griefer. Vote before 4pm. @erinentrada.bsky.social @kaholt.bsky.social #thefirststateofbeing #benbeeandtheteachergriefer #erinentradakelly #kaholt #battleofthebooks #middleschoollibrary #readMG #readYA #marchmadness
It’s difficult to describe this book. There were young people trying to figure out the world, themselves & growing up but also time travel, & the dangers that entails. And a mom in the future desperately trying to get her son back. I really liked it. #booksky #thefirststateofbeing #erinentradakelly
April 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s difficult to describe this book. There were young people trying to figure out the world, themselves & growing up but also time travel, & the dangers that entails. And a mom in the future desperately trying to get her son back. I really liked it. #booksky #thefirststateofbeing #erinentradakelly
Best children's book award winner #erinentradakelly is a #filipinxauthor #pinoypinaypinx #yabooks#representationmatters
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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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January 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Best children's book award winner #erinentradakelly is a #filipinxauthor #pinoypinaypinx #yabooks#representationmatters
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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‘24 Middle-grade books I loved:
MID AIR by Alicia D Williams
10 MISTAKES OF HANK HOOPERMAN by Gennifer Choldenko
OLIVETTI by Allie Millington
THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy
FERRIS by Kate DiCamillo
FIRST STATE OF BEING by ErinEntradaKelly
And still need to read so many!
#kidlitchat
MID AIR by Alicia D Williams
10 MISTAKES OF HANK HOOPERMAN by Gennifer Choldenko
OLIVETTI by Allie Millington
THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy
FERRIS by Kate DiCamillo
FIRST STATE OF BEING by ErinEntradaKelly
And still need to read so many!
#kidlitchat
December 18, 2024 at 2:54 AM
‘24 Middle-grade books I loved:
MID AIR by Alicia D Williams
10 MISTAKES OF HANK HOOPERMAN by Gennifer Choldenko
OLIVETTI by Allie Millington
THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy
FERRIS by Kate DiCamillo
FIRST STATE OF BEING by ErinEntradaKelly
And still need to read so many!
#kidlitchat
MID AIR by Alicia D Williams
10 MISTAKES OF HANK HOOPERMAN by Gennifer Choldenko
OLIVETTI by Allie Millington
THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy
FERRIS by Kate DiCamillo
FIRST STATE OF BEING by ErinEntradaKelly
And still need to read so many!
#kidlitchat
#bookaday On Again, Awkward Again #erinentradakelly #kwamembalia Enjoyed this fun read abt Pacy(who’s clumsy) and Cecil (who has IBS) eyeing each other at 1st wk of school and they fall in like/love. How will they get to know each other?
April 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#bookaday On Again, Awkward Again #erinentradakelly #kwamembalia Enjoyed this fun read abt Pacy(who’s clumsy) and Cecil (who has IBS) eyeing each other at 1st wk of school and they fall in like/love. How will they get to know each other?