Mark Twain Readers Award
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The Mark Twain Readers Award, or simply Mark Twain Award, is a children's book award which annually recognizes one book selected by vote of Missouri schoolchildren from a list prepared by librarians and volunteer readers. It is now one of four Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Readers Awards and is associated with school grades 4 to 6; the other MASL Readers Awards were inaugurated from 1995 to 2009 and are associated with grades K–3, 6–8, 9–12 and nonfiction.[1] The 1970 Newbery Medal winning book Sounder, by William H. Armstrong, was the inaugural winner of the Mark Twain Award in 1972.[2]
Peg Kehret has won the Mark Twain Award four times, once in 1999 for Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, a memoir of her childhood, and three times in six years from 2007 to 2012 for novels.[3]
Nomination guidelines
[edit]- Books should interest children in grades four through six.
- Books should be an original work written by an author living in the United States.
- Books should be of literary value which may enrich children's personal lives.
- Books should be published two years prior to nomination on a master list of twelve nominees.
Voting process
[edit]Though the list of nominated books is designated for grades four through six, any student can vote for the winner so long as they satisfy the following criteria:
- Book must have been read by voter.
- Voter must have read at least four books from the list of nominees.
- Voter can only vote once.
Schools design their own ballots. Individual votes for each school (or qualified group) are tallied on a single sheet and submitted to the MASL.
Winners
[edit]The award has recognized a single book by a single writer without exception from 1972.[2][3][4]
- 2021 Blended by Sharon Draper
- 2020 One for Sorrow: a Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
- 2019 Framed! by James Ponti
- 2018 The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- 2017 A Million Ways Home by Dianna Dorisi-Winget
- 2016 Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
- 2015 Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- 2014 The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann[4]
- 2013 Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper[3]
- 2012 Runaway Twin by Peg Kehret
- 2011 Stolen Children by Peg Kehret
- 2010 Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn[2]
- 2009 The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
- 2008 The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- 2007 Abduction! by Peg Kehret
- 2006 The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
- 2005 Wenny Has Wings by Janet Lee Carey (made into a Japanese movie Ano sora wo Oboetaru)
- 2004 Zach's Lie by Roland Smith
- 2003 Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- 2002 Dork In Disguise by Carol Gorman
- 2001 Holes by Louis Sachar
- 2000 Saving Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
- 1999 Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
- 1998 Titanic Crossing by Barbara Williams
- 1997 Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn
- 1996 Ghosts of Mercy Manor by Betty Ren Wright
- 1995 The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood
- 1994 Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
- 1993 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- 1992 The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
- 1991 All About Sam by Lois Lowry
- 1990 There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
- 1989 Sixth-Grade Sleepover by Eve Bunting
- 1988 Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts
- 1987 The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
- 1986 The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
- 1985 A Bundle of Sticks by Pat Rhoads Mauser
- 1984 The Secret Life of the Underwear Champ by Betty Miles
- 1983 The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
- 1982 The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot by Marian Place
- 1981 Soup for President by Robert Newton Peck
- 1980 The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
- 1979 Champion of Merrimack County by Roger W. Drury
- 1978 Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
- 1977 The Ghost of Saturday Night by Sid Fleischman
- 1976 The Home Run Trick by Scott Corbett
- 1975 How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
- 1974 It's a Mile from Here to Glory by Robert C. Lee
- 1973 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
- 1972 Sounder by William H. Armstrong
See also
[edit]
- 1971–1972 Mark Twain Awards nominees
- 1972–1973 Mark Twain Awards nominees
References
[edit]- ^ "The MASL Readers Awards" (homepage). Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL). Retrieved 2014-05-05.
- ^ a b c "Mark Twain Award Previous Winners" [1972 to 2010]. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
- ^ a b c "Mark Twain Award" Archived 2014-08-11 at the Wayback Machine. Missouri River Regional Library (mrrl.org). Retrieved 2014-08-06. With list of winners 1990 to 2013; lists of nominees with blurbs 2010/11 to 2014/15.
- ^ a b "2013–2014 MASL Readers Awards Winners". MASL. Retrieved 2014-05-05. With tabulated results of four elections.
External links
[edit]- Mark Twain Award winners 1972– booklist at WorldCat
- The MASL Readers Awards – point of entry to all four Missouri School Librarians reader choice book awards