The purpose of this award program:
- to encourage young readers in Delaware to become better acquainted with quality literature
- to expose students to recent books
- to honor favorite books and authors
- to broaden students’ awareness of literature as a lifelong pleasure
Students will be asked to vote for their favorite book from a list of titles. In order to be eligible to vote, a kindergarten, first, or second grade student must read or listen to 8 of the 12 nominated books. A third through twelfth grade student must read or listen to 4 of the 10 nominated books.
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Delaware Diamonds Winning Titles for 2018
- K-2, Madeline Finn and the
Library Dog, Lisa Papp
- Gr. 3-5, Seven and a Half
Tons of Steel, Janet Nolan
- Gr. 6-8, Scar Island,
Dan Gemeinhart
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Delaware Diamond K-2 Titles
The Curse of Einstein’s
Pencil Deborah Zemke Dad and the Dinosaur Gennifer Choldenko Follow the Moon Home Philippe Cousteau I Am Jim Henson Brad
Meltzer King & Kayla and the
Case of the Secret Code Dori
Hillestad Butler A Letter to My Teacher Deborah Hopkinson Lexie the Word Wrangler Rebecca VanSlyke My Dog’s a Chicken Susan McElroy
Montanari The Quickest Kid In
Clarksville Pat Zietlow Miller The Ring Bearer Floyd
Cooper Sarabella’s Thinking Cap Judy Schachner
Steppin’ Out Lin
Oliver |
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Delaware Diamonds Grades 3-5 Titles
Dazzle Ships Chris
Barton Feel the Beat Marilyn
Singer Flowers for Sarajevo John McCutcheon Her Right Foot Dave
Eggers Lemons Melissa
Savage The Nantucket Sea Monster Darcy Pattison Pink Is For Blobfish Jess Keating Ruby Lee & Me Shannon
Hitchcock She Persisted Chelsea
Clinton Take a Picture of Me,
James
VanDerZee! Andrea J. Loney |
Delaware Diamond Grades 6-8 Titles
Booked Kwame Alexander
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and
New Orleans Don Brown
The War that Saved My Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T.
Cook Leslie Connor
Cuckoo Song Frances Hardinge
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid
Mary Gail Jarrow
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom:
My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March, Lynda Blackmon Lowery
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of
Apollo, Book 1) Rick Riordan
Ghosts Raina Telgemeier
Wolf Hollow Lauren Wolk
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