CAUDILL 2012 WINNER

We picked it! The winner for the 2012 Rebecca Caudill Book Award at Lakeview is the same as the official state winner. And the winner is...Powerless, by Matthew Cody. Powerless is the story of children in a small town who have superpowers but lose their powers when they turn 13. A new boy in town helps the children find out what happens to their powers.

Now the winner has been announced. Mrs. Wilson and I would like to reveal which books we would have voted for, if we were eligible to vote. (Only Illinois students in grades 4-8 are eligible.) It was a tough choice this year because all 20 books were great! Mrs. Wilson's choice is All the Broken Pieces, by Ann E. Burg. a novel in verse about a Vietnamese boy who escapes the war to live with an American family but has terrible nightmares about his past. My choice would be Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld, a steampunk novel set in World War I where the British and their allies have developed living machines based on Darwin's principles and the Germans and their allies have mechanical machines. Steampunk is a new genre that blends science fiction with historical fiction often creating alternative histories.

Thank you to eveyone who purchased items at the P.T.O. Spring Book Fair. The P.T.O. has donated 17 wonderful books to the IMC. I will catalog the books over spring break and we will process them as soon as we get back. Books should be ready for student checkout after Easter.