Hopefully all Oklahoma students know about Sequoyah Book Lists. Each year a group of librarians, teachers, parents, and students select 15-18 new books to feature. Students are encouraged to read at least three titles from a selected list, and, if they do, they get to vote and help select the winning books for that year. What makes the Sequoyah Book Award special is the fact only children are allowed to vote - no adults. They truly have the power to determine which author will receive this award. Sequoyah, whom the award is named after, is credited as the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, so it's a great tribute from the state of Oklahoma. Now we used to just have two lists - one for elementary and one for secondary. This was changed two years ago when the committee decided to split the secondary to make one for intermediate and another for high school.
It was so much easier to read the elementary list each summer! I could breeze through the list and was prepared to recommend titles to my students. This didn't happen last year. I made the move to middle school, and let me just say - you cannot breeze through these titles. However, I'm bound and determined to give these middle schoolers the same service! I decided I would read ALL the novels on the Sequoyah Intermediate list this summer. Here's a link to Sequoyah Intermediate Book List 2016,so you'll know what I'm talking about. So far, so good....
I have quite a few to review, so I'm giving you a heads up. My plan is to tag them as both a review and Sequoyah. Hopefully this will help me, you, and others find what they need quickly.
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