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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">March 31, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Buckeye Children’s Book Award Council is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2019 Buckeye Children’s Book Award and the 2019 Buckeye Teen Book Award, and the winners of the 2019 Perma-Bound
Buckeye Book Awards Programming Grant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The following titles were chosen in an online nomination process by young readers across the state of Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For Grades K-2
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
by Dan Santat (Roaring Brook Press, 2017) 978-1626726826<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Did You Eat the Parakeet?</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Mark Iacolina (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) 978-0374305888<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Drawn Together</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Minh Le and Dan Santat (Disney-Hyperion, 2018) 978-1484767603<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Elbow Grease</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by John Cena; illustrated by Howard McWilliam (Random House Books for
Young Readers, 2018) 978-1524773502<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Not Quite Narwhal</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Jessie Sima (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017)
978-1481469098<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For Grades 3-5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A Boy Called Bat
</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">by Elana K. Arnold; illustrated by Charles Santoso (Walden Pond Press, 2017) 978-0062445827<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas (book 5)</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Dav Pilkey (Graphix, 2018) 978-0545935173<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rebound (Crossover series)</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Kwame Alexander (HMH Books For Young Readers, 2018)
978-0544868137<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Squint</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown (Shadow Mountain, 2018) 978-1629724850<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Collector</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by K.R. Alexander (Scholastic Press, 2018) 978-1338212242<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For Grades 6-8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Not If I Save You First</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Ally Carter (Scholastic Press, 2018) 978-1338134148<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo book 3)</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion,
2018) 978-1484746431<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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for Young Readers, 2017) 978-0316355896<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Teen Buckeye Book Award nominees (for grades 9-12):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wildcard (Warcross book 2)</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by Marie Lu (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers,
2018) 978-0399547997<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To be eligible for nomination for the 2019 award, a book must have been published in the United States in the previous two years. Voting is open to any student in Ohio, and will begin on September
1, 2019 on the Buckeye Children’s and Teen Book Award (BCTBA) website: </span><a href="http://www.bcbookaward.info"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.bcbookaward.info</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">. Voting ends on November
10, 2019, and the winners will be announced after December 1, 2019. <span style="color:black">
Nominations for the 2020 awards are being accepted at the same website, all summer long.</span>
<b>Ohio’s reader’s choice book award is notable among other state book award programs in that the nominated and winning titles are entirely selected by the state’s children and teens.</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Buckeye Children’s and Teen Book Award Council is pleased to continue our two partnerships, with DOGOBooks.com and TeachingBooks.net.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
DOGObooks.com, the leading website for book reviews by-and-for kids, hosts the BCTBA voting through an engaging interface for Ohio students to learn about the nominated books, share their reviews, and vote for their favorites. TeachingBooks.net, the professional
tool for educators, will be providing free access for teachers and librarians to multimedia resources on the Buckeye-nominated books, from author interviews to literacy connections and lesson plans. Together our organizations will continue to promote the love
of reading among Ohio’s children and teens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The BCTBA Council also<b>
</b>announces the<b> winners of the 2019 Perma-Bound Buckeye Book Awards Programming Grant</b>.
<span style="color:#222222">Educators and librarians who work with children in grades K-12 in Ohio applied for a grant to
</span>use the awarded books in activities or programs that promote literacy, give more children access to great books, and get children and teens involved in the Buckeye Book Award voting process. The winners are:<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The winners of this grant won three copies each of the top five nominees in their grade level, for a total of 15 books, from Perma-Bound. Applications were
judged on criteria including the creativity of programming proposals, the number of children that will be engaged in the activities, and the emphasis placed on increasing literacy and involvement in the Buckeye Book Award voting process. Special consideration
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">More information on the Buckeye Book Awards and the Programming Grant is available on our website:
</span><a href="http://www.bcbookaward.info"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.bcbookaward.info</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> or by contacting the BCTBA Council President, Sarah Granville, at
</span><a href="mailto:buckeyekidsread@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">buckeyekidsread@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.
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