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Member Matters
 ** Member Matters ** Young readers chose the following titles in an online voting process all across the state of Ohio: For Grades K-2: // The Chicken of the Family // by Mary Amato, illustrated by Delphine Durand (Putnam Publishing Group, 2008) ** Member Matters ** Young readers chose the following titles in an online voting process all across the state of Ohio: For Grades 3-5 // Found // by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster, 2008) For Grades 6-8 Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam (Simon & Schuster, 2007) For the Teen Buckeye Book Award: // The Hunger Games // by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2008) Please help spread the word that Ohio students can nominate a favorite book written by an American author and published in 2008, 2009, or 2010 for the 2010 Buckeye Children’s Book Award (K-2), (3-5), (6-8) or Teen Buckeye Book Award (9-12). Nominations will be accepted from January 1, 2010 -March 10, 2010. Visit the Buckeye Children’s Book Award website: __ www.bcbookaward.info <[|http://www.bcbookaward.info]>  __ and the Teen Buckeye Book award website: __ www.bcbookaward.info/teens <[]>  __ for further information, or contact Christine Watters, BCBA Council president __ cewatters@gmail.com   __ or BCBA Council secretary, Christina Getrost, __ teenlibrarian@smfpl.org   __.
 * OCIRA E-News    JANUARY 2010  **
 * The Buckeye Children’s Book Award Council announces the winners of the **
 * 2009 Buckeye Children’s Book Award and the 2009 Teen Buckeye Award. **
 * OCIRA E-News    JANUARY 2010  **
 * The Buckeye Children’s Book Award Council announces the winners of the **
 * 2009 Buckeye Children’s Book Award and the 2009 Teen Buckeye Award. **
 * Ohio’s book award is unique among other state book award programs in that **
 * the nominated and winning titles are entirely selected by children. Teachers **
 * and librarians who encourage their students to participate in the Buckeye **
 * Children’s Book Award reading/nominating/reading/voting process report **
 * an enthusiastic response. **

** OCIRA International Literacy Project 2009-2010 ** This year our council will work to support the International Literacy Project known as **// “Libraries of Love.” //** This non-profit organization collects books, prepares them with a spine label, pocket and card and ships them to Uganda, Africa in February. A team travels to Uganda in June builds bookshelves, organizes the books in library order and decorates the library room. After the team leaves the director remains for a month and meets with classes and staff members to train them on how to use the library. So far they have created six libraries serving over 9,000 children in Uganda. This year they will ship 24,000 books and create libraries for another 7,000 children. We are asking that each local council collect **// monetary //** donations at each council meeting and send your final donation to our committee chair by May 30th. We will send a check to the Libraries of Love to help support their summer visit. Any amount will be helpful!

Send your council donation to: Cheryl Borovitcky 106 Heather Creek Run Youngstown, Ohio 44511. We appreciate your efforts to support this literacy project!

Are you interested in being more involved in the Ohio Council of the International Reading Association? We need Field Representatives for the areas listed below. If you are interested, please send a resume to Tracy Alley, President of OCIRA at __  talley@cinci.rr.com   __  expressing your interest. If you are selected, you would be required to attend three board meetings a year plus promote OCIRA in your region.

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