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Students Pick Annual Eagle Book Award Winner
By Betty-Ann Boss
Each year the students at Grand Rapids Christian Elementary School Iroquois campus select a book to receive the Eagle Book Award.
Media Specialist, Betty-Ann Boss selects 20 of the top reviewed and awarded books of the past year, buys multiple copies (with the gracious help from the PTO), and introduces this school-wide reading program to all classes, kindergarten through fourth grade.
Students are asked to read at least 10 of the selected book in order to have the privilege of voting for their favorite book. Those students that read all 20 are given the title of "Eagle Experts." After the voting has been tallied, these Eagle Experts are featured in the winner reveal video.
Some past Eagle Book Award Winners include The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship by Jessica Kensky, Big Mean Mike by Michelle Knudsen, and Camp Tiger by Susan Choi.
The 2021 Eagle Book Award nominees are:
- The Barnabus Project by the Fan Brothers
- Boxitects by Kim Smith
- The Cat Man of Aleppo by Karim Shamsi-Basha
- Evelyn Del Rey is Moving Away by Meg Medina
- Hike by Pete Oswald
- Honeybee by Candace Fleming
- I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott
- My Best Friend by Julie Fogliano & Jillian Tamaki
- Nacho’s Nachos by Sandra Nickel
- Nesting by Henry Cole
- The Oldest Student by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
- One Little Bag by Henry Cole
- The Paper Kingdom by Helena Ku Rhee
- Pea, Bee, & Jay: Stuck Together by Brian Smith
- Polio Pioneer by Linda Elovitz Marshall
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Sugar in Milk by Thrity Umrigar
- Swashby and the Sea by Beth Ferry and Juana Martinez-Neal
- Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin
- We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
The 2021 Eagle Book Award contest runs through April 23, so Iroquois parents there's still time to get involved. Mrs. Boss is busy uploading read-aloud videos to Seesaw, so be sure to check them out.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the 2021 Eagle Book Award!
Betty-Ann Boss serves as the Media Specialist at Grand Rapids Christian Elementary School's Iroquois Campus. Mrs. Boss started as a Media Specialist at Millbrook Christian School in the fall of 2000. She worked for several years as a librarian at the high school and then transitioned full-time to the Iroquois Building. She received her Master of Library Science from the University of Toronto in 1984 and then went on to earn her Media Endorsement from Grand Valley State University in 2014.
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