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This is a photo of me (under the whipped cream). Our school met the Summer Reading Challenge and turned me into an ice cream sundae. I have been a teacher for 20 wonderful years. I taught 3rd & 4th grade for 16 years and have been a teacher librarian going on to 4 yrs.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

and the Winner is....Check out the Missouri Readers Award Winners

Truman Readers Award (Grades 6-8)


1st Place: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Scholastic Press

2nd Place: Gone, by Michael Grant. HarperTeen.

3rd Place: Jump the Cracks, by Stacy DeKeyser. Flux.



Mark Twain Readers Award (Grades 4-6)

1st Place: Stolen Children, by Peg Kehret. Dutton.

2nd Place: Found, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Simon & Shuster.

3rd Place: Go Big or Go Home, by Will Hobbs. Harper Collins.



Show Me Readers Award (Grades 1-3)

1st Place: Two Bobbies, A True Story, by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery, illustrated by Jean Cassels. Walker and Company.

2nd Place: For the Love of Autumn, by Patricia Polacco. Philomel Books.

3rd Place: Titanicat, by Marty Crisp, illustrated by Marty Papp. Sleeping Bear Press.