California Young Reader Medal
Nominees for 2019/2020
We will be reading the primary books during Library Time for grades K-3 beginning in January. Chapter books will be available for check out at the same time. Students will vote for their favorite picture books during Library Time in February, votes for Picture books for older readers and chapter books are due at the end of March. Medal winners are announced in May.
For some really good reading, take a look at all the winners at http://www.californiayoungreadermedal.org/winners/
Nominees for 2018/19
State winners
Primary: The Bear and the Piano
Picture books for older readers: Emmanuel's Dream
Intermediate: The War That Saved My Life
Middle School: Echo
Primary: The Bear and the Piano
Picture books for older readers: Emmanuel's Dream
Intermediate: The War That Saved My Life
Middle School: Echo
Winners and Nominees for 2017/18
- K-5th grades read and voted for their favorites during Library Time in January and February. The state and the school's winners are listed below. All books are available in the library for check out.
Primary (grades K-3):
- Gaston
- Night Animals
- The Snatchabook
- The Book With No Pictures - Medal winner and winner at MEA
- If You Plant a Seed
- Picture Books for Older Readers (Grades 4 and up):
- The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
- Barbed Wire Baseball - Medal winner!
- The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandisnsky's Abstract Art - winner at MEA
Intermediate (Grades 3-5):
- Ms. Rapscott's Girls
- Pax - Medal winner!
- Dash
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- Middle School (Grades 6-8):
Tesla's Attic
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook