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Monday, May 4, 2015

Minnesota Book Awards

The Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award and the Star of the North Book Award were recently announced.   These Minnesota unique book awards are voted on by students.

The Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award is a children's choice book award, and recognizes award winning books in two different grade level divisions. The purpose of the award is to promote recreational reading by children. Students in grades 3 through 5 are able to vote on the Division I winners, and 6th through 8th grade students vote for winners within the Division II nominees.

The Division I winners are:


1st Place                          2nd Place                           3rd Place
Belly Up                           Ghost Dog Secrets             Guinea Dog
by Stuart Gibbs                by Peg Kehret                    by Patrick Jennings
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The Division II winners are:

1st Place                         2nd Place                        3rd Place
Breathing Room              Cinder                             The False Prince
by Marsha Hayles           by Marissa Meyer            by Jennifer A. Nielsen
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The Star of the North Award is also a children's choice award, but recognizes the best picture book voted on by children in grades Kindergarten through 2nd.  

This year's winners are:

1st Place                                       2nd Place                             3rd Place
Moo                                               Jangles                                 I'm Bored
by David LaRochelle                     written and illustrated by       by Michael Black
illustrated by Mike Wahnoutka      David Shannon                     illustrated by Debbie
                                                                                                    Ridpath Ohi

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Put all of these award winning books on your and your children's  reading list for the summer


Copyright Morsel by Diane Konjura

As the last few weeks wind down in the school year this video, Copyright Basics Video, is a great overall review of copyright for teachers and high school students.  This video covers copyright, fair use, public domain and other copyright related topics. 

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