[SEO-Members] Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Awards: 2022 nominees & book grant opportunity

jdwyer at library.ohio.gov jdwyer at library.ohio.gov
Mon Apr 4 09:05:00 EDT 2022


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The Buckeye Children's Book Award Council is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2022 Buckeye Children's Book Award and the 2022 Buckeye Teen Book Award.  The following titles were chosen in an online nomination process by young readers across the state of Ohio.


For Grades K-2

  *   Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor  (Balzer + Bray, 2021)
  *   Something Good by Marcy Campbell; illustrated by Corinna Luyken (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2021)
  *   Something's Wrong: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear by Jory John; illustrated by Erin Kraan  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
  *   The Barnabus Project by Terry, Eric, and Devin Fan (Tundra Books, 2020)
  *   The Bruce Swap by Ryan T. Higgins  (Disney-Hyperion, 2021)


For Grades 3-5

  *   Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
  *   Inside Cat by Brendan Wenzel (Chronicle Books, 2021)
  *   Linked by Gordon Korman (Scholastic, 2021)
  *   Pity Party by Kathleen Lane (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2021)
  *   Red, White, and Whole by Rajani Larocca (Quill Tree Books, 2021)


For Grades 6-8

  *   Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion, 2021)
  *   Ground Zero by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press, 2021)
  *   Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, 2021)
  *   Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books, 2020)
  *   Taking Up Space by Alyson Gerber (Scholastic, 2021)


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

  *   Ashlords by Scott Reintgen (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020)
  *   Loveless by Alice Oseman (Scholastic Press, March 1, 2022)
  *   Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam (Balzer + Bray, 2020)
  *   Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco (Sourcebooks Fire, 2020)
  *   The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (Page Street Kids, 2020)


To be eligible for nomination, a book must have been published in the United States in the previous two years.  Voting is open to any student in Ohio, and begins on September 1, 2022 on the Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award (BCTBA) website: www.bcbookaward.info<http://www.bcbookaward.info>.  Voting ends on November 10, 2022, and the winners will be announced after December 1, 2022.  Nominations for the 2023 awards are being accepted at the same website, through March 10, 2023. 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.

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Applications for the 2022 Perma-Bound Buckeye Book Award Programming Grant are now being accepted. Perma-Bound has partnered with the Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Awards to offer this book grant. It is designed to give more children access to great books, and provide them opportunities to be actively engaged in reading and the democratic process as they use their votes to determine the next Buckeye Book Award winners. The application period is open until May 1, 2022.

Librarians and educators who work with children in the grade ranges of K-12 in Ohio may apply for a set of books nominated for the 2022 Buckeye Book Awards in a grade category (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, or Teen).
There will be 4 grant winners, one for each grade category. Each will receive three copies each of the top five nominees in their grade category, 15 books total, from Perma-Bound.

Learn more and apply here: http://bcbookaward.info/grant/

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More information on the Buckeye Book Awards is available at www.bcbookaward.info<http://www.bcbookaward.info> or by contacting the BCTBA Council President, Nancy Boone, at buckeyekidsread at gmail.com<mailto:buckeyekidsread at gmail.com>.


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Janet Ingraham Dwyer (she/her)
Library Consultant
614-644-6910
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov<mailto:jdwyer at library.ohio.gov>
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