[OPLINLIST] Buckeye Children's Book Award 2009 nominees announced

[Teen Librarian]

The Buckeye Children’s Book Award Council announces the nominees for
the 2009 Buckeye Children’s Book Award and the 2009 Teen Buckeye Book
Award. The following titles were chosen in an online nomination
process by young readers all across the state of Ohio.
For grades K-2:
•	Fly High, Fly Guy!, by Tedd Arnold (Cartwheel Books/Scholastic, 2008)
•	The Retired Kid, by Jon Agee  (Hyperion, 2008)
•	The Chicken of the Family, by Mary Amato, ill. by Delphine Durand
(Putnam Juvenile, 2008)
•	Monster Hug!, by David Ezra Stein (Putnam Juvenile, 2007)
•	Larue For Mayor: Letters From the Campaign Trail, by Mark Teague
(Blue Sky Press, 2008)
For grades 3-5:
•	Eve of the Emperor Penguin (Magic Treehouse #40), by Mary Pope
Osbourne (Random House, 2008)
•	Found, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon and Schuster, 2008)
•	Paint the Wind, by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic, 2007)
•	Marley, a Dog Like No Other, by John Grogan (HarperCollins, 2007)
•	Babymouse #9: Monster Mash by Jennifer and Matt Holm (Random House, 2008)
For grades 6-8:
•	Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book 4), by
Rick Riordan (Hyperion, 2008)
•	Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam, by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum, 2007)
•	Love, Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli (Knopf, 2007)
•	Paintball Blast, by Jake Maddox (Stone Arch Books, 2007)
•	Bounce, by Natasha Friend (Scholastic, 2007)

The Teen Buckeye Book Award nominees (for grades 9-12):
•	The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic, 2008)
•	City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry, 2007)
•	Dance With a Vampire (Vampire Kisses #4), by Ellen Schreiber
(HarperTeen, 2007)
•	Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon and Schuster, 2007)
•	Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins (HarperTeen, 2007)

To be eligible for nomination, a book must have been written by an
American author and published in either 2007 or 2008. Voting is open
to any student in Ohio, and begins on September 1, 2009 on the BCBA
website: www.bcbookaward.info and the TBBA website:
www.bcbookaward.info/teens Voting ends on November 10, 2009, and the
winners will be announced on December 1, 2009.

The Buckeye Children's 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 is the only statewide readers’
choice program where books are both nominated and voted on by
students. The BCBA program was established in 1981 through a
collaborative effort of the Ohio Council of the International Reading
Association, The Ohio Educational Library Media Association, The Ohio
Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts, The Ohio Library
Council, and The State Library of Ohio.

Teachers and librarians serve on the Buckeye Children's Book Award
Council. Current sponsoring agencies are the Ohio Council
International Reading Association (OCIRA), the Ohio Council of
Teachers of English Language Arts (OCTELA), the Ohio Educational
Library Media Association (OELMA), the Ohio Library Council (OLC), and
the Kent State University School of Library and Information Science.

For more information, contact:

BCBA Council President, Christine Watters, cewatters at gmail.com
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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