Oregon Reader's Choice Award Winners Announced!

The winners for the ORCA book award were announced on April 17, 2015. 
In case you missed it, the winners are:

Upper Elementary:
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Middle School Division
Ungifted by Gordon Korman

Hig School Division:
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

2015 Oregon Book Awards Finalists Announced

The Oregon Book Awards and Fellowships honor the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers.  The 2015 finalists were announced today and the winners will be announced at the 28th annual Oregon Book Awards Ceremony on April 13, 2015.  The awards include two categories of literature for youth, which includes the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature and the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature.  See the finalists listed below:

ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Kim T. Griswell of Ashland, Rufus Goes to School (Sterling Children’s Books)
Susan Hill Long of Portland, Whistle in the Dark (Holiday House)
H. Joseph Hopkins of Portland, The Tree Lady (Beach Lane Books)
Deborah Hopkinson of West Linn, The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, The Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (Alfred A. Knopf)
Elizabeth Rusch of Portland, Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World
(Candlewick Press)

LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
April Henry of Portland, The Body In the Woods (Henry Holt)
Robin Herrera of Portland, Hope is a Ferris Wheel (Amulet Books)
Lisa Schroeder of Beaverton, The Bridge From Me To You (Scholastic)
Christina Struyk-Brown of Portland, Whisper (Orca Book Publishers)

Staff Picks Are Coming to a Library Near You!

A great thing about working at the Tigard Public Library is working with a staff full of readers. Coworkers are always sharing interesting titles with each other.  Now, we want to share them with you!  Beginning today, Wednesday, December 10, find out what books have enthralled, entertained and energized library staff.  Look for the staff picks displays in the Children’s Room and on the second floor near the top of the stairs. The selections are as diverse as the staff!  Read a staff pick today!