Charlotte Committee, March 2009, New York State Reading Association Conference
Check out the NYSRA webpage (link on the right hand side) to get more information about participating in the 2010 Charlotte Award voting. Here’s the books that are on the ballot. Follow the links above to pages on “primary”, “intermediate”, and “young adult” ballot books for more resources. Also you can visit TeachingBooks.net — an online service that all NY schools have free access to through the BOCES School Library Systems–to get resources as well. Happy Reading! Liz
Primary Ballot Books (Grades Pk-3)
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Hopkinson)
Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg (Posada)
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach (Deedy)
The Orange Shoes (Noble)
Over in the Jungle: A Rainforest Rhyme (Berkes)
Stargazer’s Alphabet (Farrell)
There’s a Bird on Your Head! (Willems)
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly (Madison)
When Dinosaurs Came With Everything (Broach)
Wolf’s Coming! (Kulka)
Intermediate Ballot (Grades 4-6)
42 Miles (Zimmer)
A Dog On His Own (Auch)
The Invasion of Sandy Bay (Sanchez)
Lawn Boy (Paulsen)
Leepike Ridge (Wilson)
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf ( Holm)
Ookpik: The Travels of a Snowy Owl (Hiscock)
Rickshaw Girl (Perkins)
Steel Drumming at the Apollo (Marx)
Stolen Children (Kehret)
Young Adult Ballot
Beauty Shop for Rent (Bowers)
Chains (Anderson)
Dear Jo: The story of losing Leah… (Kilbourne)
The Hunger Games (Collins)
In Search of Mockingbird (Ellsworth)
I,Q (Smith)
Kimchi & Calamari (Kent)
Schooled (Korman)
Skin Deep (Crane)
Trouble (Schmidt)
