2016 BCCCA Award Winner Announced

The 2016 Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award Winner has been announced!  This year's winner is Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year by Bill Harley!  Congratulations Bill!

To see a list of the 2016-17 BCCCA nominees, visit:
https://ola.memberclicks.net/bccca-nominees

If you are in 1st-3rd grade, you can participate in our Kids Book Club where we will discuss books from the 2016-17 BCCCA nominee list.  Sign-ups begin in August 2016!

2013 Beverly Cleary Childen's Choice Award Announced

The 2013 Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award winner has been announced!  The winning book is Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst.  This is the story about Lulu and how her parents refuse to give in when she demands a brontosaurus for her birthday.  So she sets out into the woods to find her own dinosaur.  But when Lulu finds a  brontosaurus, she learns that her potential pet has other intentions.

School children all over Oregon voted for their favorite book from a list of six suggested books.  The books nomiated for the award are targeted to the interests and reading level of second and third graders.  The award was created by and sponsored by the Oregon Association of School Libraries and is named after local children's author, Beverly Cleary. 

Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award Voting

It's time again for children reading at a 2nd and 3rd grade reading level to vote for their favorite book for the 2013 Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award!  Voting is now open and ends on April 10th.  The winner is usually announced on April 12th, which is Beverly Cleary's Birthday!  The books that are eligible for being voted for are:

Sophie Simon Solves Them All by Lisa Graff
Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off by Jacqueline Jules
The Pup Who Cried Wolf by Chris Kurtz
The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz
Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst
Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 by Eric Wight

Elementary School aged children are eligible to vote for their favorite.  However, they need to have read atleast two (2) titles from the list in order to vote.  A voting station will be located in the children's room March 15-April 10.

ORCA & BCCCA Winners Announced!

Many children and teens participated in reader's choice awards here at the library.  The results are in and here are the winners:

Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award:
Winner: Nubs, the True Story of a Mutt, a Marine, and a Miracle by Brian Dennis



Oregon Reader's Choice Award:
Junior Division--11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Intermediate Division--When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Senior Division--The Maze Runner by James Dashner

It's Award Voting Time!

For those of you who have kids who have read the 2012 Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award (BCCCA) Nominees and the Oregon Reader's Choice Award (ORCA) Nominees, now is the time to vote! We've got ballots in the children's room available for kids to come in an vote for their favorite.  To be eligible to vote for the Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award, children in grade school need to have read atleast two of the titles from the nominee list.  To be eligible to vote for the Oregon Reader's Choice Award, elementary, middle, and high school students need to have read alteast two titles from their age group.  Voting for BCCCA will run through April 9th.  ORCA voting will run through March 31st.