Volunteer State Book Award
What is the Volunteer State Book Award?
The Volunteer State Book Award is sponsored annually by the Tennessee Library Association and the Tennessee Association of School Librarians. Each year, children across Tennessee are asked to read books from a list of nominated titles. The Volunteer State Book Award has four divisions--Primary (K-2nd Grade), Intermediate (Grades 3rd-5th), Middle School (Grades 6-8), and high school (grades 9-12). In the spring, those students who have read or listened to at least three of the titles from the list are eligible to vote for their favorite titles. These votes are tabulated and sent to the state organization. The book with the most votes statewide wins the award. The author of the book receives a plaque and is invited to Tennessee to receive the award. (from http://www.tasltn.org/vsba)
How can you participate?
Read at least three books from the nominee list by the end of Spring break.
When you have completed your reading, fill out the VSBA Nomination form.
Any student who turns in a completed VSBA nomination form will receive a gift certitficate to the Spring book fair!!!
2019-2020 VSBA Middle School Nominees
1. The Line Tender by Kate Allen
2. Where the Watermelons Grow by Cindy Baldwin
3. Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
4. This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce
5. The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus
6. Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo
7. Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
8. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya
9. Like Vanessa by Tami Charles
10. So Done by Paula Chase
11. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
12. New Kid by Jerry Craft
13. Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
14. The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
15. Door to the Lost by Jaleigh Johnson
16. A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata
17. Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly
18. Tight by Torrey Maldonado
19. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
20. Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
21. White Bird by R.J. Palacio
22. Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
23. We're Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey
24. Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
25. City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
26. Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassin by James L. Swanson
27. Hope in the Holler by Lisa Lewis Tyre
28. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
29. Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
30. Front Desk by Kelly Wang
