CALIFORNIA YOUNG READER MEDAL
2009-2010
OFFICIAL BALLOT
Mail to: California Young Reader Medal Committee, 3186 D-1 Airway, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

VOTING REQUIREMENTS
To become qualified voters, young readers must experience all of the nominated books in a category by reading the books themselves, having the books read to them, or using a combination of the two.
Young Readers may read books in more than one category.
Each reader is entitled to ONE vote in each category.
An adult in a classroom or library setting must monitor the voting procedures. Only one ballot should be submitted for each participating library, classroom, or school.
Public library and after school programs do not preclude young readers participating with their class group at school or in school library programs.

A BLANK WILL BE COUNTED AS A ZERO (0) ON THE BALLOT.

PRIMARY CATEGORY
A Frog Thing by Eric Drachman
Total Votes: ________
Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners by Laurie Keller
Total Votes: ________
My Life as a Chicken by Ellen Kelley
Total Votes: ________
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison
Total Votes: ________
Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier
Total Votes: ________

 

INTERMEDIATE CATEGORY
No Talking by Andrew Clements
Total Votes: ________
A Friendship for Today by Patricia C. McKissack
Total Votes: ________
Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda A. Urban
Total Votes: ________

 

MIDDLE SCHOOL/JUNIOR HIGH CATEGORY
Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 by Elisa Carbone
Total Votes: ________
Alabama Moon by Watt Key
Total Votes: ________
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Total Votes: ________



YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Total Votes: ________
Saint Iggy by R.L. Going
Total Votes: ________
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
Total Votes: ________


PICTURE BOOKS FOR OLDER READERS CATEGORY
Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine and Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Total Votes: ________
Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch by Mona Kerby
Total Votes: ________
Willy & Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar
Total Votes: ________
 

Ballots MUST be postmarked by April 1, 2010.

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