In February, twelve Joseph Arthur Middle School students voted in the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award program.  Votes from students in grades 4-8 all over the state of Illinois were tallied, and here are the winners!

First Place - All the Lovely Bad Ones, by Mary Downing Hahn

Second Place – Someone Named Eva, by Joan Wolf

Third Place – Elephant Run, by Roland Smith

The library has 11 of the 20 books nominated for the 2011 Rebecca Caudill Award, including The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Schooled by Gordon Korman, and Fablehaven by Brandon Mull.  To see the entire list of books, follow these steps:

• Go to www.central104library.org and click on Destiny
• Choose Joseph Arthur Middle School
• Click on the tab Resource Lists, and click on the tab Public Lists. 
• Click on the list called Rebecca Caudill 2010-2011. 

If you are interested in volunteering your time to help in the library, please make sure you have completed a volunteer form with the school district. We always have special projects such as book fairs, but we can also use help on a regular basis for shelving and organizing books already shelved. If you can volunteer, please contact me at (618)632-6336, ext. 112 or e-mail ltaffe@stclair.k12.il.us.