Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Master List for 1998-1999

[Jean Bellavance <jbellava@MCIUNIX.MCIU.K12.PA.US>]

Dear Group,
>
>The following is the Master Reading List of the Pennsylvania Young
>Readers Choice Awards Program  for the 1998-1999 school year.  The
>program is designed to promote reading of quality books by students in
>kindergarten through grade 12  in the Commonwealth. It is sponsored by
>the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. The program runs from
>September through March at which time students who have read or listened
>to 3 or more books in their grade division may vote for their favorite
>September through March at which time students who have read or listened
>to 3 or more books in their grade division may vote for their favorite
>book.  The votes are tallied and the winning books are announced at the
>Pennsylvania School Librarians Conference in April.  For more
>information write or call Jeannie Bellavance 148 S. Bethlehem Pike,
>Ambler, PA 19002-5822 or 215-643-5048.  Program brochures for the coming
>year will be available at the PSLA Conference or on request.
>
>PENNSYLVANIA YOUNG READERS CHOICE AWARD PROGRAM MASTER LIST FOR
>1998-1999
> Grades K-3
   TITLE       AUTHOR                              PUBLISHER/YEAR
>
>Barefoot       Edwards, Pamela HarperCollins 1997
>Cinder Edna    Jackson, Eileen Lothrop 1994
>Days of the Blackbird  de Paola, Tomie Putnam 1996
>Cinder Edna    Jackson, Eileen Lothrop 1994
>Days of the Blackbird  de Paola, Tomie Putnam 1996
>Eleanor        Cooney, Barbara Viking 1996
>Fannys Dream  Buehner, Caralyn        Dial  1996
>How to Make Apple
>     Pie and See the World     Priceman, Marjorie      Alfred A. Knopf  1994
>Lillys Purple Plastic Purse   Henkes, Kevin   Greenwillow  1996
>Little Red Riding Hood: A
>   New Fangled Prairie Tale    Ernst, Lisa Campbell    Simon & Schuster
1995
>Metropolitan Cow       Egan, Tim       Houghton Mifflin 1996
>Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready
>   for Kindergarten    Slate, Joseph   Dutton  1996
>Miss Spiders Tea Party        Kirk, David     Scholastic 1994
>My Brother Ant Byars, Betsy    Viking 1996
>No More Water in  the Tub      Arnold, Ted     Dial 1995
>Red Racer      Woods, Audrey   Simon &Schuster 1996
>Saving Sweetness       Stanley, Diane  Putnam 1996
>
> Grades 3-6
>
>Brass Button   Dragonwagon, Crescent   Atheneum 1997
>Freedoms Fruit        Hooks, William  Alfred A. Knopf 1996
>The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe   Johnson, Tor    Dial 1996
>Inside Outside Book
>   of Libraries        Munro, Roxie    Dutton 1996
>Kate Shelly, Bound for Glory   San Souci, Robert D.    Dial 1995
>Margaret, Frank and Andy       Rylant, Cynthia Harcort Brace 1996
>Music of Dolphins      Hesse, Karen    Scholastic 1996
>Naked Mole Rats        Jarrow, Gail and Paul   Carolrhoda 1996
>Pizza Size of the Sun  Prelutsky, Jack Greenwillow 1996
>The Puppy Sister       Hinton, S. E.   Delacorte 1995
>Rapunzel .             Zelinsky, Paul O.       Dutton 1997
>Rumplestiltskins Daughter     Stanley, Diane  Morrow 1996
>Shiloh Season  Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds        Athenaeum 1996
>Small Steps: The Year I  Got Polio  Kehret, Peg        Whitman 1996
>Swift as the Wind      Esbensen, Barbara       Orchard 1996
>Small Steps: The Year I  Got Polio  Kehret, Peg        Whitman 1996
>Swift as the Wind      Esbensen, Barbara       Orchard 1996
>
> Grades 6-8
>
>  TITLE        AUTHOR                                    PUBLISHER/YEAR
>
>Anastasias Album      Brewster, Hugh  Hyperion 1996
>The Apprenticeship of Lucas
>   Whitaker    De Felice, Cynthia      Farrar 1996
>Bad Girls      Voigt, Cynthia  Scholastic 1996
>The Ballad of Lucy Whipple     Cushman, Karen  Clarion 1996
>Beyond the Western Sea
>    The Escape from Home       Avi     Orchard 1996
>Bone Detectives, The   Jackson, Donna M.       Little & Brown 1996
>Buddy Love, Now on Video       Cooper, Ilene   Harper Collins 1995
>Clearing, The  Miller, Dorothy Reynolds        Athenaeum 1996
>Buddy Love, Now on Video       Cooper, Ilene   Harper Collins 1995
>Clearing, The  Miller, Dorothy Reynolds        Athenaeum 1996
>Crash  Spinelli, Jerry Alfred A Knopf 1996
>Crazy Weekend  Soto, Gary      Scholastic 1994
>A Girl Named Disaster  Farmer, Nancy   Orchard 1996
>Orphan Train Rider     Warren, Andrea  Houghton Mifflin 1996
>Out of the Dust        Hesse   Scholastic 1997
>When Plague Strikes    Giblin, James Cross     Harper Collins 1995
>With Every Drop of Blood       Collier, James Lincoln
>            &  Christopher Collier               Delacorte 1994
>
>
>The following is a list of books that have been recommended for young
>adult readers by the committee.  We do not at this time have a YA
>division for the Award, but we feel that students of all levels should
>be encouraged to read.
>
>Young Adult
>
TITLE                   AUTHOR                  PUBLISHER/YEAR
>After the War  Matas, Carol                    Simon & Schuster  1996
>Another Kind of Monday Coles, William E.       Atheneum  1996
>Confess-o-rama Koertge, Ron    Orchard  1996
>Dateline Troy  Fleischman, Paul        Cambridge Press  1996
>Four Perfect Pebbles   Perl, Lila      Greenwillow  1996
>I Feel a Little Jumpy around You:
>   A Book of Her and His Poems  Nye, Naomi Shihab &Paul B. Jameczko, ed.
>                                                Simon & Schuster  1996
>The Long Season of Rain        Kim, Helen      Henry Holt 1996
>Sabriel        Nix, Garth      HarperCollins, 1996
>The Voice on the Radio Cooney, Caroline B.     Delacorte  1996
>Winning Ways: A Photohistory of
>     American Women in Sports  Macy, Sue       Henry Holt 1996


Jean B. Bellavance, Librarian jbellava@mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us
Gwynedd-Mercy Academy Elementary Division
P.O. Box 241
Norristown Rd.
Spring House, PA 19477
215-641-0379
FAX: 215-628-8441

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