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 Title for 2020
- Gr. 6-12: Short and Skinny, Mark Tatulli
- There are no winners for Grades K-2 or Grades 3-5 due to COVID-19
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2020 - 2021 Delaware Diamond K-2 Titles |
The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank David Lee Miller & Steven Jay Rubin Even More Lesser Spotted Animals Martin Brown Five Minutes Liz Garton Scanlon & Audrey Vernick Hawks Kettle, Puffins Wheel Susan Vande Griek & Mark Hoffman Join the No-Plastic Challenge Scot Ritchie Lubna and Pebble Wendy Meddour & Daniel Egneous Meet Miss Fancy Irene Latham Poetree Shauna LaVoy Reynolds Pug Pals: Two's a Crowd Flora Ahn Some Snow Is... Ellen Yeomans & Andrea Offermann Todos Iguales All Equal Christy Hale Warren & Dragon: Scary Sleepover Ariel Bernstein |
2020 - 2021 Delaware Diamonds Grades 3-5 Titles Birdie Eileen Spinelli The Bookwanderers Anna James Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson Don't Let them Disappear Chelsea Clinton Indian No More Charlene Willing McManis Superlative Birds Leslie Bullion The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan Joan DiCicco Voice for the Spirit Bears Carmen Oliver The Wind Called My Name Mary Louise Sanchez Elements of Genius: Nikki Tesla &
the Ferret-Proof Death Ray Jess Keating |
2020 - 2021 Delaware Diamond Secondary Titles
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) Kwame Alexander
Game Changer
Tommy Greenwald
The Downstairs Girl Stacey Lee
No Fixed Address Susin Nielsen
Guts Raina Telgemeier
Shout Laurie Halse Anderson Last Voyage of Poe Blythe
Ally Condie Games of Deception Andrew Maraniss
Frankly in Love
David Yoon The Girl King Mimi Yu |
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