In “Ferris,” a girl and her grandmother are visited by a friendly ghost; in Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a boy is visited by a time traveler. By Gayle Forman Gayle Forman is the ...
NEW YORK — 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 ...
When Erin Entrada Kelly was awarded the 2025 Newbery Medal for The First State of Being, it completed a time-travel triad of Newbery books that began with Madeleine L’Engle. In 1964, L’Engle’s classic ...