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Design Contest
Winners
of Local Council Contests will be on the bookmark page.
The
ORA Patricia Gallagher Picture Book Award
Nominees for the 2007-2008 Award are:
Bad
Boys by Margie Palatini, Illustrated by Henry Cole
Dex, The Heart of a Hero by Caralyn Buehner, illustrated
by Mark Buehner
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers written and illustrated by Mordicai
Gerstein
My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet
The Pea Blossom retold and illustrated by Amy Lowry Poole
For summaries of the books - (coming soon)
Information
about the choices and votes for last year's nominees
For information about
previous years' nominees and winners, click on "previous winners" in sidebar
to the left.
Letters
About Literature Writing Contest for Students in Grades 4-12
Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
in partnership with Target.
Entries in each state will be assessed on three
criteria: content, or the writer’s achievement in addressing the contest theme; exposition,
or the writer’s use of language skills; and voice, the writer’s
style and originality of expression. Level I - Grades 4-6,
Level II - Grades 7-8, Level III - Grades 9-12.
For more details click here
For entry form and guidelines click here
ORA Literacy Project Grants
Fifteen $200 grants
will be awarded in December 2007.
Grants applications are due November 15, 2007.
A
list of
the 2006-2007 winners
The
IRA Exemplary School Award
One
$500 award given to a school that has
an exemplary school-wide reading program.
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