News & Awards
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Unstoppable – Iowa Teen Award Nominee
Tim’s novel, Unstoppable, was nominated for this award. The Iowa Center for the Book (ICB) is a program of Iowa Library Services/State Library and an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The mission of the ICB is to stimulate public interest in books, reading, literacy and libraries. The ICB […]
Pinch Hit Takes Third Place!
Pinch Hit was chosen as the third place winner for the 2014-2015 Mark Twain Readers Award. The Mark Twain Readers Award is awarded annually by the Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL). Students in grades four through six choose the winners from a list of twelve titles. You can read more about the award on […]
Pinch Hit: 2014-2015 MASL Readers Awards Final Nominee
MASL’s four Readers Awards represent the best current youth literature available to students of different grade levels. Every year, MASL’s Readers Award Committees work to create a preliminary list of titles that are read and voted upon by groups of Reader/Selectors to create the final list of nominees. Titles on the final list are then read […]
Perfect Season: WINS the Buckeye Children and Teen Book 2014 Award!
The Buckeye Children’s and Teen Book Award program is designed to encourage students in Ohio to read literature critically, to promote teacher and librarian involvement in young adult literature programs, and to commend authors of such literature. The Teen category was added to the existing Buckeye Children’s Book Award in 2003. History The Buckeye Children’s […]
Unstoppable: selected for the Truman Award Nominee List (2014-15)
The Truman Readers Award Program is a state wide children’s choice reading program for students in sixth-eighth grades. It is sponsored by the Missouri Association of School Librarians. Each year there is a new list of 12 quality chapter books that have been selected by teachers and librarians from around the state. The students must […]