[OPLINLIST] 2020 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award winners announced!

[jdwyer at library.ohio.gov]

Cross-posted. Please excuse duplication.

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December 1, 2020

The Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award Council is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Awards:


  *   Grades K-2: We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney-Hyperion 2018, 978-1368003551)
  *   Grades 3-5:  Shelby's Story: A Dog's Way Home Tale by W. Bruce Cameron (Starscape 2018, 978-1250301918)

  *   Grades 6-8: Guts by Raina Telgemeier (Graphix 2019, 978-0545852517)
  *   Teen: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (Blazer + Bray 2019, 978-0062498564)


Each of these books won the highest number of votes out of the five nominees in its category, in an online voting process by young readers all across the state of Ohio. Nominations for the 2020 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Awards were accepted from March 15, 2019 to March 10, 2020.  To be eligible for nomination, a book must have been published in the United States in the previous two years, and not be part of a series that has previously won the award.  Voting was held between September 1, 2020 and November 10, 2020.

The Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award program is designed to encourage children in Ohio to read literature critically, to promote teacher and librarian involvement in children's literature programs, and to commend authors of such literature. It was established in 1981 through a collaborative effort of the Ohio Literacy Association, The Ohio Educational Library Media Association, The Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts, The Ohio Library Council, the Kent State University School of Information, and The State Library of Ohio. It is one of the few statewide readers' choice awards in which students nominate titles as well as vote for the winners.

A copy of each of the winning books with the BCTBA seal will be added to the BCTBA archives, housed at the Kent State University School of Information's Reinberger Children's Center in Kent, Ohio.

Visit the BCTBA website: www.bcbookaward.info<http://www.bcbookaward.info> for further information on the voting process and to find past winners and nominees, extension ideas, author information, connections to learning standards, and other literary links.  If you have any questions please contact the BCTBA Council President using the information below.

Sincerely,

Nancy Boone, BCTBA Council President
buckeyekidsread at gmail.com



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Janet Ingraham Dwyer
Library Consultant
274 E. 1st Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201
Tel: 614-644-6910
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov<mailto:jdwyer at library.ohio.gov>
library.ohio.gov<http://library.ohio.gov/>
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