Gateway Reader Award
Each year fifteen books are nominated by Missouri school librarians as
representing the best teen literature for that year. In March, all Missouri
high school students, grades 9-12, who have read at least three of the
nominated books, may vote for their favorite book. Voting is coordinated
through each school’s library. The award winner is announced in April during
the Missouri school librarians’ conference. Students are welcome to
participate in this program.
Our library has copies of all of the 2008-09 Gateway Award nominees. They are:
- Born to Rock—by Gordon Korman
- A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life—by Dana Reinhardt
- The Christopher Killer: a Forensic Mystery—by Alane Ferguson
- Copper Sun—by Sharon Draper
- Dead Connection—by Charlie Price
- Diva—by Alex Flinn
- Hattie Big Sky—by Kirby Larson
- Just Listen: a novel—by Sarah Dessen
- Life As We Knew It—by Susan Pfeffer
- Notes from the Midnight Driver—by Jordan Sonnenblick
- Rooftop—by Paul Volponi
- The Rules of Survival—by Nancy Werlin
- Sold—by Patricia McCormick
- Terrier—by Tamora Pierce
- What Happened to Cass McBride?: a novel—by Gail Gil