[OPLINLIST] 2019 nominees for Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Awards announced / also winners of Buckeye Programming Grant

Mon Apr 1 08:52:43 EDT 2019

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 31, 2019

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.

The following titles were chosen in an online nomination process by young readers across the state of Ohio.

For Grades K-2

*        After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) by Dan Santat  (Roaring Brook Press, 2017) 978-1626726826

*        Did You Eat the Parakeet? by Mark Iacolina (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018) 978-0374305888

*        Drawn Together by Minh Le and Dan Santat (Disney-Hyperion, 2018) 978-1484767603

*        Elbow Grease by John Cena; illustrated by Howard McWilliam (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2018) 978-1524773502

*        Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017) 978-1481469098

For Grades 3-5

*        A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold; illustrated by Charles Santoso (Walden Pond Press, 2017) 978-0062445827

*        Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas (book 5) by Dav Pilkey (Graphix, 2018) 978-0545935173

*        Rebound (Crossover series) by Kwame Alexander (HMH Books For Young Readers, 2018) 978-0544868137

*        Squint by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown (Shadow Mountain, 2018) 978-1629724850

*        The Collector by K.R. Alexander (Scholastic Press, 2018) 978-1338212242

For Grades 6-8

*        Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter (Scholastic Press, 2018) 978-1338134148

*        Restart by Gordon Korman (Scholastic Press, 2017) 978-1338053777

*        Supernova (Amulet book 8) by Kazu Kibuishi (Graphix, 2018) 978-0545850025

*        The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo book 3) by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion, 2018) 978-1484746431

*        The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide (book 6) by Chris Colfer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2017) 978-0316355896

The Teen Buckeye Book Award nominees (for grades 9-12):

*        Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt and Co BYR, 2018) 978-1250170972

*        Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2017) 978-1481438254

*        Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Feiwel & Friends, 2017) 978-1250044662

*        The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (HarperTeen, 2018) 978-0062662804

*        Wildcard (Warcross book 2) by Marie Lu (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2018) 978-0399547997

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: www.bcbookaward.info<http://www.bcbookaward.info>.  Voting ends on November 10, 2019, and the winners will be announced after December 1, 2019.  Nominations for the 2020 awards are being accepted at the same website, all summer long. 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.

The Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award Council is pleased to continue our two partnerships, with DOGOBooks.com and TeachingBooks.net. 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.

The BCTBA Council also announces the winners of the 2019 Perma-Bound Buckeye Book Awards Programming Grant. Educators and librarians who work with children in grades K-12 in Ohio applied for a grant to 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:

K-2: Anne Heninger, Media Specialist, Leverette Elementary School, Toledo
3-5: Marie Slovisky, LRC Technician, Rimer Community Learning Center, Akron Public Schools
6-8: Lisa Crutchfield, Youth Services Librarian, St. Paris Public Library
9-12/Teen: Monica Heath, Community Relations Assoc./Liaison, Friends of Medina County District Library

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 was given to schools and organizations demonstrating financial need.

More information on the Buckeye Book Awards and the Programming Grant is available on our website: www.bcbookaward.info<http://www.bcbookaward.info> or by contacting the BCTBA Council President, Sarah Granville, at buckeyekidsread at gmail.com<mailto:buckeyekidsread at gmail.com>.

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