Virginia State Reader's Program
The Virginia Readers’ Choice Program is a reading incentive activity sponsored by the Virginia State Reading Association. Titles are chosen each year by members of the association. This activity has been an important part of the reading program at Flint Hill for the past twenty years. Thirty books are chosen yearly and made available in school and public libraries throughout Fairfax County. All students in grades 3-6 at Flint Hill are invited to participate. Grades 1-2 will have the books read to them either during Library class or in their classrooms. Students will report on books they have read from the list by filling out a reading form and turning it in at the Library. The deadline for reading and reporting on the books is the last day in February.
Participating students must read and report on five or more books. At that time they will have their names announced on the FHES News and have their photo taken and displayed in the Library. Booklists and reporting forms are available in the Library. Please see Mrs. Nenninger or Mrs. Judd for more information.
PURPOSE:
- To encourage young readers to become better acquainted with contemporary books with outstanding literary appeal.
- To broaden students’ awareness of literature as a life-long pleasure.
- To encourage reading aloud in classrooms as a means of introducing reading for pleasure and
- To honor favorite books and their authors.
ELIGIBILITY:
- The book must be recognized as noteworthy in the field of children’s/young adult literature
- The book must be published within five years prior to the ballot on which it appears.
- Books must be appropriate for the level for which it is nominated.
AWARDS:
A winning book will be announced by the Virginia State Reading Association for each level: Primary, Elementary, Middle and High School. Schools from all over the state of Virginia will send in votes from students. The winners will be announced in the spring of each year.
Virginia Readers Choice Book List for 2009/2010
Primary Books (K-3)
Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp by Denise Fleming
The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice Harrington
My Chincoteague Pony by Susan Jeffers
Fred Stays With Me! By Nancy Coffelt
Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk
Little Red Riding Hood by Jerry Pinkney
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
Once Upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison & Kevin Hawkes
Elementary Books (Grades 3-5)
Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
Dad, Jackie and Me by Myron Uhlberg
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
The Ghost, the White House and Me by Judith St. George
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
Mallory vs Max by Laurie Friedman
No Talking by Andrew Clements
Vinnie and Abraham by Dawn Fitzgerald
Middle Books (Grades 6-8)
The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
First Light by Rebecca Stead
Keeper by Mal Peet
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
London Calling by Edward Bloor
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
Savvy by Ingrid Law
The Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt