Reading Awards
by Rebecca Johnson
November 06, 2007
Missouri Reading Awards - Current Nominees (Voting takes place in March!)
Our school participates in all awards and student may vote for any award and all awards as long as they read the required number to be eligible.
- Show-ME books are read to all 1-3 graders during their library time.
- Mark Twain books are available in the Elementary and M.S. libraries. A student must read 4 of the 12 nominees to vote for their favorite in March.
- Truman Readers Award nominees are located in the M.S. and H.S. libraries. A student must read 4 of the 12 nominees to vote for their favorite in March
- Gateway books are available in the H.S. Library. A student must read 3 of the 15 nominees to vote for their favorite in March.
Current Nominees

| Show-ME (Grades 1-3) |
| Can I bring my pterodactyl to school? |
| Gold miner's daughter: A melodramatic fairy tale |
| Hero cat |
| Jake's 100th day of school |
| Last day blues |
| Library lion |
| Lilly's big day |
| Melissa Parkington's beautiful, beautiful hair |
| Miss Malarkey leaves no reader behind |
| One potato, two potato |

| Mark Twain (Suggested for Grades 3-6) |
| Archer's Quest |
| Cornelia and the audacious escapades of the Somerset sisters |
| Counting on Grace |
| Fairies of Nutfolk Wood |
| Finest Kind |
| Million dollar putt |
| Moon shadow |
| Rules |
| Sea of monsters |
| A small white scar |
| Uncharted waters |
| Wright 3 |
| Truman (Suggested for Grades 6-9) |
| Alabama moon |
| All of the above |
| Beast of Noor |
| Black Duck |
| Heat |
| Hurt go happy |
| Kiki Strike inside the Shadow City |
| Life as we knew it |
| Rash |
| Runaway |
| Sand dollar summer |
| Summer of Kings |

| Gateway (Suggested for Grades 9-12) |
| Born to rock |
| A brief chapter in my impossible life |
| The Christopher killer |
| Copper sun |
| Dead connection |
| Diva |
| Hattie big sky |
| Just listen |
| Life as we knew it |
| Notes from the midnight driver |
| Rooftop |
| Rules of survival |
| Sold |
| Terrier: The legend of Beka Cooper #1 |
| What happened to Cass McBride |
