[CALIBK12] CYRM Winners!

[Rusty Tooley]

Since I've been doing CYRM, there has usually been one Primary book that my students rally around, but it was different this year. Dex, Henry, and Traction Man had pretty equal support, each winning in various classrooms, grade levels, and schools in my district. (Shades of Obama and Clinton!) In fact, at one school, Traction Man won the school-wide contest by one vote more than Henry and Dex, which tied for second.

The CYRM committee probably can't release vote totals, but I am curious to know in the Primary category if the voting was unusually close, or at least closer than the committee has seen before.

Cheers,
Rusty

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Rusty Tooley
Teacher-Librarian
Barron Park Elementary School
Palo Alto Unified School District
www.barron.pausd.org






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Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 05:15:02 -0700
From: "Joanne Ligamari" Joanne.Ligamari at rlusd.org

With nearly a half a million votes, it is my pleasure to announce this year's California Young Reader Medal winners, they are:

PRIMARY --   Dex: The Heart of a Hero
(originally published as Superdog: The Heart of a Hero) by Caralyn Buehner. Illustrated by Mark Buehner. Harper Collins Publishers, 2004.