Missouri Book Awards

Out of the 112,728 votes cast by Missouri students, the following titles have been selected as the winners of MASL’s 2010-2011 Readers Awards.



Gateway Readers Award (Grades 9-12)

1st Place: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Scholastic Press.

2nd Place: Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

3rd Place: Wake, by Lisa McMann. Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Publishers.



Truman Readers Award (Grades 6-8)

1st Place: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.

2nd Place: Gone, by Michael Grant.

3rd Place: Jump the Cracks, by Stacy DeKeyser.



Mark Twain Readers Award (Grades 4-6)

1st Place: Stolen Children, by Peg Kehret.

2nd Place: Found, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. .

3rd Place: Go Big or Go Home, by Will Hobbs.



Show Me Readers Award (Grades 1-3)

1st Place: Two Bobbies, A True Story, by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery, illustrated by Jean Cassels. .

2nd Place: For the Love of Autumn, by Patricia Polacco.
3rd Place: Titanicat, by Marty Crisp, illustrated by Marty Papp.