[OPLINLIST] 2021 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award winners announced

[jdwyer at library.ohio.gov]

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December 1, 2021


The Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award<http://bcbookaward.info/> Council is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Awards:

  *   Grades K-2: Happy Narwhalidays (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #5) by Ben Clanton (Tundra Books, 2020)

  *   Grades 3-5:  The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins, 2020)

  *   Grades 6-8: Words on Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic Press, 2019)

  *   Teen: The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020)


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 2021 Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Awards were accepted from March 15, 2020 to March 10, 2021. 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 and November 10, 2021.


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 Ohio Literacy Association, The Ohio Educational Library Media Association, The Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts, The Ohio Library Council, the Kent State University School of Information, 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 using the information below.


Sincerely,


Nancy Boone, BCTBA Council President

buckeyekidsread at gmail.com<mailto:buckeyekidsread at gmail.com>

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