The 2010 Monarch and Caudill Winners Announced!

The Monarch and Caudill award winners are determined by grade school students at participating schools around the state of Illinois. Readers in grades K to 3rd decide on the Monarch Award; while students in grades 4 to 8 vote for the Rebecca Caudill Award. Each year the readers’ top three choices are announced at the [...]

Emma-Jean Lazarus, girl genius

Emma-Jean does not fit in with the other 7th graders in her school but that is just fine with her.  She’s smart, super smart and has better things to worry about than being popular.  But then she finds super nice Colleen crying in the bathroom and promises to help her with her problem.  Emma-Jean doesn’t realize this [...]

Caudill Round-up – Part Last

Last call for all the 2010 Caudill nominees being read and voted for across Illinois school libraries and media centers.  Check back in March and we’ll post the winner! Elephant Run by Roland Smith With Germans bombing Great Britain at the beginning of WWII,  Nick’s mother sends him to live with his father in Burma.  Danger is there [...]

Caudill Round-up Part 3

Once again we would like to highlight great books being voted for by Illinois kids grades 4-8 this month in schools across the state.  Voting wraps up at the end of the month when they will announce the winner! Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycottby Russell Freedman A non-fiction account of the [...]

More Caudill Fun

It’s February, the snow is falling and Rebecca Caudill voting is beginning at school library and media centers throughout Illinois. We’d like to highlight a few of the 2010 nominees on this year’s ballot. All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn Travis and his younger sister Corey are spending the summer with their Grandma [...]

The Caudills are coming!

The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award  voting is starting soon!  Here at WNPL we have all the nominees and a handy binder on the Booklist Tower.  Each week we’ll highlight a Caudill nominee and tell you a little bit more about each book. Shooting the Moon by Fances O’Roark Dowell begins with Jamie Dexter beating Private Hollister 21 games to 16 in [...]