At Crestwood, we participate at two of the levels, Primary and Elementary. In order to be eligible to vote, a participant must be exposed to at least four of the ten nominated books by reading them himself, having them read aloud to him, or a combination of the two. At the Elementary level, the program is optional. All the students in grade 4-6 are exposed to the books on their list through a series of booktalks that are designed to get them interested in reading the books on their own. Books that are short enough are read to the students during their library time.
Students are eligible to fill out a ballot as soon as they have read the required number of books.
The votes from Crestwood are tallied and sent off to be included with the votes from other Fairfax County Public Schools. The FCPS totals are then sent off to be tallied with all the votes from other participating school districts in the state. Every year, the students look forward to getting the exciting news that tells them which books were the state winners. This web page contains links to one or more web pages that are outside the FCPS network. FCPS does not control the content or relevancy of these pages.