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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">- Voting for this year’s Great Lakes Great Books Award ends Saturday, January 13, 2024. Each year the Award committee selects
eight nominees in each of the five categories. Michigan students in grades K-12 elect the winners by voting on the pool of 40 nominees chosen by the committee. Titles with the most votes will be declared the winners and honor books during the Michigan Reading
Association’s Annual Conference to be held March 15-17. The nominees are as follows:</span></p>
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Elaine M. Alexander, illustrated by Fiona Fogg</span></p>
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Christopher Denise</span></p>
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Michaela Goade</span></p>
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Naseem Hrab, illustrated by Kelly Collier</span></p>
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Deborah Marcero</span></p>
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Jerome Pumphrey & Jarrett Pumphrey</span></p>
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Anoosha Syed</span></p>
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Corey R. Tabor</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Farmhouse</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by
Sophie Blackall</span></p>
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and illustrated by Emma Hunsinger and Tillie Walden</span></p>
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A Story of How Forests Communicate Underground</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by Tera Kelley, illustrated by Marie Hermansson</span></p>
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Cynthia Lord, illustrated by Stephanie Graegin</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">The Sweetest Scoop: Ben & Jerry’s Ice
Cream Revolution</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by Lisa Robinson, illustrated by Stacy Innerst</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illustrated by Tiffany Rose</span></p>
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Very (Very) Small</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by Jess Wade, illustrated by Melissa Castrillón</span></p>
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Ashley Wolff</span></p>
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and illustrated by Cait May and Trevor Bream</span></p>
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Zoraida Córdova</span></p>
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Battle of Antietam</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by Claudia Friddell, illustrated by Christopher Cyr</span></p>
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Karina Yan Glaser</span></p>
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David Levithan</span></p>
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Laurie Morrison</span></p>
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Dan Santat</span></p>
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of Complete Nonsense</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Julia Rothman</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Iveliz Explains It All</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by
Andrea Beatriz Arango, illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez</span></p>
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Jade Armstrong</span></p>
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Restoring an Island Ecosystem</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by Nancy F. Castaldo, photography by Morgan Heim</span></p>
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Gayle Forman</span></p>
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Tae Keller</span></p>
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Hope Larson, illustrated by Rebecca Mock</span></p>
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Justin Madson</span></p>
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Niki Smith</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Hollow Fires</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by
Samira Ahmed</span></p>
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Betty Culley</span></p>
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Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> by Candace Fleming</span></p>
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Kathleen Glasgow</span></p>
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Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jason Griffin</span></p>
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Ruta Sepetys</span></p>
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Sabaa Tahir</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">“This Award is intended to introduce
kids to excellent books and to encourage their participation in the democratic election process by voting for the winners,”
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">says Award co-chair Jesse Shirtz.
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">“I love that the winners are elected only by Michigan students; no adults allowed!”
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">She added that students may vote if they’ve read at least one book in a category.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Votes may be submitted until January 13, 2024 on MRA’s
website at</span><a href="http://www.michiganreading.org" style="text-decoration:none" id="OWA29c9f66d-8e6f-aab3-7b8a-85325a25db7c" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></a><a href="http://www.michiganreading.org/great-lakes-great-books" style="text-decoration:none" id="OWA6de8b939-3397-0c8a-d27e-488228c068fa" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">www.michiganreading.org/great-lakes-great-books</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">.
The committee maintains a web presence on social media: @MichGLGBooks on Facebook and Twitter, and @GreatLakesGreatBooks on Instagram. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">About the Great Lakes Great Books Award:
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">The purpose of the Great Lakes Great Books Award is to celebrate recent literature with Michigan students that has literary
merit and kid appeal, and presents diverse points of view, while highlighting the election process in the selection of the winners. The Award was established in 1987 by the Michigan Reading Association. The frequency and categories in which the Award is given
have fluctuated since its inception, becoming an annual award in 1995-96 and solidifying into the current five categories in 2004-05.</span></p>
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