[OPLINLIST] Announcing Buckeye Book Award winners

[Teen Librarian]

The Buckeye Children’s Book Award Council announces the winners of the

2009 Buckeye Children’s Book Award and the 2009 Teen Buckeye Award.

The following titles were chosen in an online voting process by young
readers

all across the state of Ohio:



For Grades K-2:

*The Chicken of the Family* by Mary Amato, illustrated by Delphine Durand

(Putnam Publishing Group, 2008)



For Grades 3-5

*Found *by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster, 2008)



For Grades 6-8

*Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam* (Simon & Schuster, 2007)



For the Teen Buckeye Book Award:

*The Hunger Games *by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2008)



Ohio’s book award is unique among other state book award programs in that

the nominated and winning titles are entirely selected by children.
Teachers

and librarians who encourage their students to participate in the Buckeye

Children’s Book Award reading/nominating/reading/voting process report

an enthusiastic response.



Please help spread the word that Ohio students can nominate a favorite book
written

by an American author and published in 2008, 2009, or 2010 for the 2010
Buckeye

Children’s Book Award (K-2), (3-5), (6-8) or Teen Buckeye Book Award (9-12).


Nominations will be accepted from January 1, 2010 –March 10, 2010.



Visit the Buckeye Children’s Book Award website: www.bcbookaward.info  and
the

Teen Buckeye Book award website: www.bcbookaward.info/teens for further
information,

or contact Christine Watters, BCBA Council president cewatters at gmail.com or
BCBA

Council secretary, Christina Getrost, teenlibrarian at smfpl.org .


-- 
Christina Getrost, Head of Teen Services
Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library
3512 Darrow Rd, Stow OH 44224
(330) 688-3295 www.smfpl.org
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