Golden Dome Book Award

Check out this cool bookshelf of Golden Dome Book Award nominees. Click on each book to view a book trailer (or book talk) about the book. Stop by the library to check one out. Don't forget to read at least five books this year so you can vote on your favorite!

Vermont Middle Grade Book Award*

As many of you know, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award program is being renamed.  The Vermont Department of Libraries formed a committee last spring, consisting of teachers, students, and Dept. of Libraries staff.  Students from around the state submitted name ideas and I was hoping the committee would have a new name before school starts, but instead they have picked their top 10 and will let students vote on the final name.  I'll be sure to share the voting information when it becomes available.  

For now, regardless of the name, there are new award books to read this year!  As usual, read them and enjoy them. When you read five or more books you get to vote on your favorite one.  The book that gets the most votes from students around the state gets an award. 

(Click on any book to view the book trailer.)

Check out some of the winners from past years:

2020 - Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden 

2019 - Refugee, by Alan Gratz 

2018 - Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II, by Alan Gratz 

2017 - The Terrible Two, by Jory John & Mac Barnett 

2016 - El Deafo, by Cece Bell 

2015 - Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, by Chris Grabenstein 

2014 - Wonder, by R. J. Palacio 

2013 - The Running Dream, by Wendelin Van Draanen 

2012 - Smile, by Raina Telgemeier 

2011 - 11 Birthdays, by Wendy Mass 

2010 - Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins 

 See the complete list of winners from 1957-2020.

* Formerly the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award

Airplane Engineering

In 1B this afternoon we read Rosie Revere, Engineer and Violet the Pilot, both books about creative children building flying machines.  The kids loved the books and were inspired!

            

The first graders were inspired and went right to work building their own airplanes out of paper and Legos.  Everyone wants to fly!

Book trailers

Are you looking for a new book to read?  Check out these book trailers for a fun new way to browse books!  If you see something you like, check to see if the library has it!  If not, let me know and I'll order it for you!  Happy browsing.