Sunshine State Young Reader's Award



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The Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program is a statewide reading motivation program for students in grades 3-8. The program, cosponsored by the School Library Media Services Office of the Department of Education and the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME), began in 1983. 

Students in grades 3-8 who have read or have heard read at least three of the books on the nominations list will be eligible to vote on their favorite book during statewide balloting. Voting will take place before April 7, 2007.

Grades 3-5

Frog Princess by E.D. Baker Runt by Marion Dane Bauer Attack of the Mutant Underwear by Tom Birdseye The Beloved Dearly by Doug Cooney Lowji Discovers America by Candace Fleming
My Brother's Hero by Adrian Fogelin Because of Anya by Margaret Peterson Haddix Quake! Disaster in San Francisco by G.L. Karwoski Chasing the Falconers by Gordon Korman The Boy Who Spoke Dog by Clay Morgan
Colder Than Ice by David Patneaude Made You Look by Diane Roberts Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith Attack of the Tagger by W. Van Draanen

 

Grades 6-8

Gilda Joyce by Jennifer Allison May Bird and the Ever After by Jodi Lynn Anderson The Return of Gabriel by John Armistead Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Double Dutch by Sharon Draper
Overboard by Elizabeth Fama Flush by Carl Hiaasen Quake! Disaster in San Francisco by G. L. Karwoski Chasing the Falconers by Gordon Korman The Boy Who Spoke Dog by Clay Morgan
Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith Truesight by David Stahler, Jr. The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm

 

Florida Teens Read!

Click here to link to similar reading program for teens in grades 9 - 12.