The 2015 Massachusetts Children’s Book Award program (MCBA)

The 2015 Massachusetts Children’s Book Award program (MCBA) culminated in our annualvoting party on Friday, March 13th. We’d like to thank the members of the PTO for their generous financial assistance. Without you we would never have been able to buy multiple copies of paperback books, CD’s and raffle prizes to support this successful program.

Since September, students in grades four and five have read and reviewed books from a list of twenty-five nominated titles. Over 150 students voted and selected THE LIONS OF LITTLE ROCK, by Kristan Levine as their favorite. The statewide winner will be announced at the end of March. We also participated in the Bates-Schofield-Sprague-Upham Jeopardy challenge, and we’ll find out the results in a couple of weeks.

Here’s a list of students who went over and beyond by reading and reviewing more than the five books necessary to vote. 

Fourth Grade		Fifth Grade
10 or more
Charlie ColemanTeddy Connon  Zachary Dupont Vincent Ferrara Xavier Ferrara Hadley Giesser Nina Goujiamanis	Katie GreenVaani Kapoor Jake Parker Cyreena RichwineRuari Sadasiv Michael SkuratovskyRayken Zhuang	Ava Hawkins Anna Hemmerle Anna Lazzarino	Sophie Majernick Addie Schiller Iris Xia
15 or more
Paul Awdeh Henry MacKinnon	Ellie Owens Ingrid Voldins	Lovisa Davidsson Phoebe Green Anya Kochling	Alexa Quinn Jane Russell
20 or more
Kathryn Fischmann Olivia Fletcher	Kate Lindquist Ellie Stevenson
All 25		All 25 plus reviews!
Eliza Barker Lillie Caiazzo Emma Goodall Mason Guthrie Ishan Kundu	Lily Levitzky Zoe Maggioni Rindha Reddy Abby Stathis	Elizabeth Cahaly Tom Cahaly Eliza Churchill Audrey Martin	Ella Martin Jonathan Marvan Michelle Thorbjornsen Vicky Thorbjornsen

Happy Reading,

Ellen Mandel and Samantha Gradwohl