Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2015-2016
The Sunshine State Young Reader's Award is a reading program that promotes literacy in elementary and middle schools. Nominees are chosen by the SSYRA committee based on their wide appeal, literacy value, varied genres, curriculum connections, and/or multicultural representation. Parents are encourage dto become familiar with the nominees, and summaries of each book are available below. Please contact Mrs. Hudson at Webster if you have any questions or concerns about the SSYRA books. Each of the titles will be available in the library, and students who have read three or more of the SSYRA books will be eligible to vote on their favorite book in the spring. These titles are also used in the SJCSD Battle of the Books competition. Click the poster below to view the titles, or click here to watch the SSYRA video preview.
Freaky Fast Frankie Joe
by Lutricia Clifton
Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the fathe rhe never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
The Hypnotists
by Gordon Korman
Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.
Summaries provided by Follett.