Bestselling children’s author Julie Kagawa scored bigtime today, having two of her books nominated for the reader-voted SSYRA award in Florida. Storm Dragons: Lightningborn was nominated for grades 3-5 and Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl was nominated for grades 6-8. Both books were published by Disney-Hyperion Books.
The Sunshine State Young Readers Award (SSYRA) Program is a statewide reading motivational program for students in grades 3 through 8. The purpose of the SSYRA Program is to encourage students to read independently for pleasure and to read books that are on, above, and below their reading level in order to improve their reading fluency. Sunshine State books are selected for their wide appeal, literary value, varied genres, curriculum connections, and/or multicultural representation. The SSYRA committee is comprised of 20 qualified school librarians located throughout the state of Florida, subdivided into two committees- grades 3-5 and grades 6-8.
Congratulations, Julie, on your “twofer” nomination!
https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra.html
