Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program
Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program |
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This year's program is full of exciting and wonderful book titles. The program is designed to present interesting literature to students in the state of Florida. This year's program at Epiphany will be for:
There is a list of books to choose and read. Students will receive a punch card to keep track of how many books they have read. Students who read ANY of the books from October through March are eligible to vote. Those students will vote for their favorite book in March in the library media center. Those students in grades 3rd to 5th that read more than 6 books & those students in 6th to 8th grades that read more than 4 books will attend the "Sunshine Party" with the library media specialist after school at the end of March.
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3rd-5th Grade List 
6th-8th Grade List Booktalk videos
Sunshine State Authors
Previous Book Winners
SSYRA Program Info.
Click on the name of the book to view a video booktalk.
Grades 3rd - 5th |
Grades 3rd - 8th |
Grades 6th - 8th |
For extra fun, make an origami yoda. |
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For an easy version, click here for instructions. |
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more videos coming soon... |
For a medium version, click here for instructions. |
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For the hard version, click here for instructions. |
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Click on the underlined authors for more information!
2011-2012 Reading List for 3rd-5th Grades
*also for 6th-8th grades
The 100-Year Old Secret by Tracy Barrett
The Magic Half by Annie Barrows
NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society by Michael Buckley
Extra Credit by Andrew Clements
*Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff
The Secret of Zoom by Lynne Jonell
Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise
Flight of the Phoenix by R.L. LaFevers
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
How Oliver Olson Changed the World by Claudia Mills
Captain Nobody by Dean Pitchford
Dragon's Egg by Sarah L. Thomson
Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) by Lisa Yee
2011-2012 Reading List for 6th-8th Grades
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
The Prince of Fenway Park by Julianna Baggott
Flawed Dogs: The Novel: The Shocking Raid of Westminster by Berkeley Breathed
Dark Life by Kat Falls
Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story by Tonya Hegamin & Marilyn Nelson
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
Alibi Junior High by Greg Logsted
The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson
The Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
Bystander by James Preller
Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival by Arthur G. Slade
Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
| Year | Grades 3-5 Winner | Grades 6-8 Winner |
| 2010-2011 | TBA | TBA |
| 2009-2010 | Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix | Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen |
| 2008-2009 | The Ghost's Grave by Peg Kehret | Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson |
| 2007-2008 | The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo | The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan |
| 2006-2007 | Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry | Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry |
| 2005-2006 | Escaping the Wave by Peg Kehret | Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde |
| 2004-2005 | City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau | City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau |
| 2003-2004 | Me Tarzan by Betsy Byars | Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen |
| 2002-2003 | Holes by Louis Sachar | Holes by Louis Sachar |
| 2001-2002 | Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo | Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| 2000-2001 | The Ghost in Room 11 by Betty Ren Wright | The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice |
| 1999-2000 | Volcano Disaster by Peg Kehret | Jaguar by Roland Smith |
| 1998-1999 | 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents by Lee Wardlaw | 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents by Lee Wardlaw |
| 1997-1998 | Tornado by Betsy Byars | Ghosts Don't Get Goosebumps by Elvira Woodruff |
| 1996-1997 | Nasty, Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting | Nasty, Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting |
| 1995-1996 | Blackwater Swamp by Bill Wallace | Seventh-Grade Weirdo by Lee Wardlaw |
| 1994-1995 | Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka | Devil's Bridge by Cynthia DeFelice |
| 1993-1994 | The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother by Elvira Woodruff | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi |
| 1992-1993 | Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume | Nightmare by Willo Davis Roberts |
| 1991-1992 | Fudge by Charlotte Towner Graeber | Something Upstairs by Avi |
| 1990-1991 | There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar | There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar |
| 1989-1990 | Teacher's Pet by Johanna Hurwitz | Trapped in Death Cave by Bill Wallace |
| 1988-1989 | Sixth-grade Sleepover by Eve Bunting | Sixth-grade Sleepover by Eve Bunting |
| Grades 3-8 Winner | ||
| 1987-1988 | Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements | |
| Grades 4-8 Winners | ||
| 1986-1987 | Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson | |
| 1985-1986 | Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days by Stephen Manes | |
| 1984-1985 | Superfudge by Judy Blume | |
| 1983-1984 | Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe |
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