Virginia Readers' Choice Program

      The Virginia Readers' Choice Program  is sponsored by the Virginia State Reading Association. Each year 10 books are nominated on different age levels. Students are to read or listen to at least 4 of the 10 books and then vote for the book that they liked the best. The voting takes place in March. The books that receive the most votes from throughout the state of Virginia will receive the Virginia Readers' Choice Award. This year's winners were:

Primary - Chester by Melanie Watt

   Elementary - Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School and other Scary Things

  by Lenore Look

The books that have been nominated for the school year 2011-2012 are:

Primary Level (Grades K - 2)

1. A Isn't for Fox: An Isn't Alphabet
2. Big Elephant in the Room
3. Elephant & Piggy: We Are in a Book!
4. Harry and Horsie
5. How Rocket Learned to Read
6. Machines Go to Work
7. Odd Egg
8. Otis
9. Testing the Ice
10. What Pet to Get?

Elementary Level (Grades 3 - 5)

1. 100-Year-Old Secret

2. 11 Birthdays

3. All the Lovely Bad Ones

4. Annie Glover is not a Tree Lover

5. Captain Nobody

6. Colonial Voices: Hear them Speak

7. Dog Days of Charlotte Hayes

8. Drita, My Homegirl

9. How Oliver Olson Changed the World

10. Wild Girl