Every year, the Virginia State Reading Association sponsors the Virginia Readers’ Choice Awards Program. Ten noteworthy books, published within the last five years, are nominated by students, teachers, and librarians across the state. Students read or listen to all 10 books and then, in March, vote for the book that they like the best. The book with the most votes from throughout the state of Virginia receives the Virginia Readers' Choice Award. The winner is announced in May.
Ashburn Library's Virginia Readers' Choice Primary Book Club will read all 10 of the 2009-2010 nominees as well as a number of past winners.
At our March, 2010, book club meeting we'll have a Voting Party and vote for our favorite book. We will send our votes to Richmond, and in May, 2010, we'll find out which book was voted most popular by all the voters in the whole state of Virginia.
The 2009-2010 VYR books we'll read are:
- September 10th: Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly, by Alan Madison.
- October 8th: The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County, by Janice Harrington.
- November 12th: My Chincoteague Pony, by Susan Jeffers, and Once Upon a Banana, by Jennifer Armstrong.
- December 10th: Little Red Riding Hood, by Jerry Pinckney.
- January 14th: Library Mouse, by Daniel Kirk, and Fred Stays with Me!, by Nancy Coffelt.
- February 11th: Old Bear, by Kevin Henkes, and Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp, by Denise Fleming.
- March 11th: Meerkat Mail, by Emily Gravett.
Registration for the September Book Club begins Thursday, August 27th at the LCPL website!
Some of the past winners that we'll be reading are:
- Once I Ate a Pie, by Patricia MacLachlan (2009 winner!)
- He Came with the Couch, by David Slonin
- Guji Guji, by Chih-Yuan Chen (2007 winner)
- The Monster Who Ate My Peas, by Danny Schnitzlein (2006 winner)
- Epossumondas, by Colleen Salley (2005 winner)
- The Recess Queen, by Alexis O'Neill (2004 winner)
- The Soccer Mom From Outer Space, by BarneySaltzberg (2003 winner)
- Two Bad Ants, by Chris Van Allsburg (1991 winner)
- My Little Sister Ate One Hare, by Bill Grossman (1999 winner)
- Akiak, A Tale from the Iditarod, by Robert Blake (2001 winner)
- The Great White Man-Eating Shark: a cautionary tale, by Margaret Mahy (1992 winner)
- Dogzilla, by Dav Pilkey (1996 winner)
- Suddenly!, by Colin McNaughton (1998 winner)
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