Iowa Book Awards now includes The Goldfinch Award for PreK-3rd titles

The 2010-11 ILA-Iowa Association of School Librarians (IASL) Book Awards were announced Wednesday, January 6.

 

New for 2010-2011 is the Goldfinch Award, given by PreK-3rd grade students in the state of Iowa. This award was designed to encourage children to read more quality books, provide a positive dialogue about books, and give recognition to those who write books for children.

 

To be eligible to vote for the Goldfinch Award, students in the participating grades must read or have read to them five books off the list. Books are added to the list from student nominations and reviewed by Goldfinch Award committee members.

 

The Iowa Educators Consortium and IASL have awarded the 2010-2011 IASL Book Award bid to Perfection Learning. Iowa AEAs will deliver the official IASL Perfection Learning Order Form to Iowa K-12 schools the week of January 4. (Download). Full order details, including an option to order online, are available on this Iowa Educators Consortium web page.

 

Here are the full lists:

 

Iowa Goldfinch Award 

(New for 2010-2011: PreK-3rd)

 

19 titles

Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek, A Tall, Thin Tale, Deborah Hopkinson
Bee-Wigged, Cece Bell
Benny and Penny in Just Pretend, Geoffrey Hayes
Fancy Nancy: The Dazzling Book Report, Jane O'Connor
The Frandidate, Jim Benton
Fred Stays with Me!, Nancy Coffelt
I Feel a Foot, Maranke Rinck
I Will Surprise My Friend!, Mo Willems
Jeremy Draws a Monster, Peter McCarty
Louise the Big Cheese: Divine Diva, Elise, Primavera
The Moon Over Star, Dianna Hutts Aston
Rainstorm, Barbara Lehman
Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie, Laura Rankin
Scaredy Squirrel at Night, Melanie Watt
Stone Age Boy, Satoshi, Kitamura
Thank You Bear, Greg Foley
Violet the Pilot, Steve Breen
The Wheat Doll, Alison L. Randall
When Charlie McButton Lost Power, Suzanne Collins

 

 

Iowa Children's Choice Award

 

23 titles

The 100 Year-Old-Secret, Tracy Barrett
Deep and Dark and Dangerous, Mary Downing Hahn
Detective Camp, Ron Roy
Diamond Willow, Helen Frost
Every Soul a Star, Wendy Mass
Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Hate That Cat, Sharon Creech
How to Steal a Dog, Barbara O'Connor
Iron Thunder, Avi
Lost and Found, Andrew Clements
Marley: A Dog Like No Other, John Grogan
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, Sarah Miller
The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
The Name of this Book is Secret, Pseudonymous Bosch
Paint the Wind, Ryan, Pam Munoz
Satch and Me, Dan Gutman
Stolen Children, Peg Kehret
Swindle, Gordon Korman
Trading Faces, Julia Devillers
The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
Two-Minute Drill, Mike Lupica
The Willoughbys, Lois Lowry
Yes, I Know the Monkey Man, Dori Hillestad Butler

 

Iowa Teen Award

 

15 titles

Airman, Eoin Colfer
The Alchemyst, Michael Scott
The Boy Who Dared, Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Compound, S. A. Bodeen
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
Elephant Run, Roland Smith
Football Genius, Tim Green
La Linea, Ann Jaramillo
The Magic Thief, Sarah Prineas
Notes from the Midnight Driver, Jordan, Sonnenblick
Runaway, Wendelin Van Draanen
Scat, Carl Hiaasen
Shark Girl, Kelly L. Bingham
Shooting the Moon, Frances O'Roark Dowell
Waiting for Normal, Leslie Connor

 

 

Iowa High School Book Award

 

13 titles

The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Pearson, Mary E
The Blind Side, Michael Lewis
Boot Camp, Todd Strasser
Change of Heart, Jodi Piccoult
The Game of My Life: A True Story of Challenge, Triumph, and Growing up Autistic, Jason McElwain
Graceling, Kristin Cashore
Hacking Harvard, Robin Wasserman
The Hunger Games, Collins, Suzanne
Living Dead Girl, Elizabeth Scott
Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen
Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir, Cylin Busby

 

 

Full text of the announcement:

 

The ILA Book Awards Committees are pleased to announce the lists for 2010-2011. Perfection Learning has been awarded the bid for purchase of the book sets. Schools, I believe, have already received flyers on the book sales. Here is the web site to check out all the information:

 

http://www.iec-ia.org/vnews/display.v/ART/45071eee822c1

 

Also, we are pleased to be announcing the first year of the Goldfinch Award.

This award is devoted to PreK-grade 3 readers. Now we have a book award for every grade level. How exciting for the promotion of reading!

 

As is noted within the web site, the ordering of supplies for next year will not begin until at least March. I can let you know when those are ready for you to submit orders.

 

If you have any questions, please let me know.

 

Thanks for your interest in the Book Awards and for your promotion of them.

 

Bonnie Raasch, Media Specialist

Vernon Middle School

Marion, Iowa
[braasch@marion.k12.ia.us]

 

~Roy