Vermont has a plethora of student choice book awards. They are: the Red Clover Book Award (grades K-4), DCF Children's Book Award (grades 4-8), and the Green Mountain Book Award (grades 9-12). As an incoming middle school/ high school librarian, I attended sessions discussing the DCF and GMBA books.
There were a lot of great books on both lists. I was interested in the overall presentations. We found some interesting themes in the GMBA book lists: fun, fantasy, and horror (and also oddly enough, cancer and dead parents seemed to be popular themes as well.) The overall presentations consisted of book talks and discussions about the process of the nominations, etc. It was recently announced that The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen won this year's DCF award. I look forward to reading many of the books on both of these lists over the summer! I also applied to become a member of the GMBA committee. *fingers crossed*
The book websites are listed below:
DCF Book award
Green Mountain Book Award
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