Teen Choice Reading Program Concludes; Winners Revealed
Teen Choice Reading Program
Concludes; Winners Revealed
The staff of the Grant County Public Library announced that John Loup, Natalie Thaden, Annabelle Schwenn and Addison Schwagel are winners in the Teen Choice reading program.
According to Tammy Wollschlager, library director, each year, The South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards committee nominates 12 middle school titles and 12 high school titles to be voted on by South Dakota teens, with one book from each list being named the South Dakota Teen Choice Book of the year.
To encourage the teens of Grant County to be a part of the South Dakota Teen Choice Book awards selection process, the local library created the Teen Read Challenge. This was the sixth year for the Grant County Public Library Teen Read challenge.
This year, an additional list of 12 books was created with local library book nominations for both the middle school and high school lists. This allowed the students a broader selection of reading materials to select from.
Students could read books from any of the lists from their age group or higher and return a “bookmark ballot” given with each checkout, allowing them to both give the book a star rating score and share comments about the book.
The voting opened last fall and concluded April 1. “A number of our local teens participated with over 50 votes being placed,” Wollschlager said. A winner was drawn from all the returned bookmark ballots for each of the reading lists.
John Loup and Natalie Thaden each won a $150 cash card for the state and county high school lists. Annabelle Schwenn and Addison Schwagel each won a $100 cash card in the drawings for the state and county middle school divisions.
The book winners for the South Dakota Teen Choice Book of the year will be announced later this month during National Library Week.
Among the books on the Grant County book lists, All Thirteen, by Christina Soontornvat won in the high school division, with Spirit Hunters, by Ellen Oh, selected from the junior high division.
Grant County readers are encouraged to read these and many other books available in the young adult section of the library.
The library staff plans to release the seventh annual Teen Read Challenge next fall with new lists of young adult books for readers to read and vote to select the next years’ winners.
