[OPLINLIST] 2019 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award winners

[jdwyer at library.ohio.gov]

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The Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award Council is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Awards:

  *   Grades K-2: Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017) 978-1481469098

  *   Grades 3-5: The Collector by K.R. Alexander (Scholastic Press, 2018) 978-1338212242

  *   Grades 6-8: Restart by Gordon Korman (Scholastic Press, 2017) 978-1338053777

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


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 2019 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Awards were accepted from March 15, 2018 to March 10, 2019.  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, 2019 and November 10, 2019.

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 Kent State University School of Information, The Ohio Literacy 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. 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 at the email address below.

Sincerely,

Nancy Boone, BCTBA Council President
buckeyekidsread at gmail.com<mailto:buckeyekidsread at gmail.com>


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