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 2016-2017
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Grades K-2 Trouper by Meg Kearney Grades 3-5 Hot Dog! Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic by Leslie Kimmelman Grades 6-8 Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly |
Delaware Diamond K-2 Titles
By Mouse & Frog Deborah Freedman A Dog Wearing Shoes Sangmi Ko Henry Holton Takes the Ice Sandra Bradley Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat Deborah Underwood High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs Lisa Kahn Schnell Humphrey’s Creepy-Crawly Camping Adventure Betty G. Birney I Don’t Want to Be a Frog Dev Petty Leaflets Three, Let It Be! Anita Sanchez Little Red Gliding Hood Tara Lazar Miss Hazeltine’s Home for Shy and Fearful Cats Alicia Potter A Poem in Your Pocket Margaret McNamara & G. Brian Karas Trapped! A Whale’s Rescue Robert Burleigh |
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Delaware Diamonds Grades 3-5 Titles
Finding the Music (En pos
de la musica) Jennifer
Torres Fuzzy Mud Louis Sachar Game Changer John Coy The Inventor’s Secret Suzanne Slade Jumping Off Library
Shelves Lee Bennett
Hopkins One Plastic Bag Miranda Paul A Passion for Elephants Toni
Buzzeo Rapscott’s Girls Elise Primavera The Trouble With Ants Claudia
Mills
Zane and the Hurricane Rodman
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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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