Last summer RPL joined the Maine Student Book Award program, which every spring presents a list of outstanding new books for students in grades four through eight.
Students read at least three books from the list and then vote for their favorite.
Your response to the MSBA program was overwhelmingly favorable, so we are participating again this year. Just about all 42 books on the 2001-2002 list are now ready to borrow. As before, we have both bookmarks listing the books and handouts with book descriptions. Remember that, if you are a student in grades four through eight in a participating school, you ll vote there. As usual, a twelve-person committee school and public librarians, reading teachers and others put the list together.