Reading Awards
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. library. 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) |
Mother Bruce |
Winnie |
The Day the Crayons Came Home |
Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett and the Invention of the Modern Zoo |
Ketzel, The Cat Who Composed |
Marilyn's Monster |
I Am Trying to Love Spiders |
If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! |
Trombone Shorty |
Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story |
Mark Twain (Suggested for Grades 3-6) |
Webster: Tale of an Outlaw |
The Doublecross and Other Skills I Learned as a Superspy |
All The Answers |
House Arrest |
Took |
The War that Saved my Life |
The Worst Class Trip Ever |
Book Scavenger |
Fish in a Tree |
Beneath |
Echo |
The Only Game |
Truman (Suggested for Grades 6-8) |
The Fixer |
Forget Tomorrow |
The Leveller |
Red Queen |
Orbiting Jupiter |
I am Princess X |
A Night Divided |
The Honest Truth |
Code of Honor |
All Fall Down |
What Waits in the Woods |
Rebel Mechanics |
Gateway (Suggested for Grades 9-12)
All the Bright Places |
Inherit Midnight |
Everything Everything |
Losers Take All |
Zeroboxer |
Under a Painted Sky |
Made You Up |
Emmy and Oliver |
Six of Crows |
This Raging Light |
A Madness So Discreet |
Extraordinary Means |
The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak |
Ruthless |
An Ember in the Ashes |