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Welcome to The Marsh Library
Welcome to the Marsh Library website. Hopefully, we will see you in the library soon and often. The purpose of our school library is to teach research and digital citizenship skills, collaborate with teachers, encourage patrons to use information effectively, and foster the love of reading and libraries in each student.
THE VERMONT MIDDLE GRADE BOOK AWARD
The Vermont Middle Grade Books Award (formerly the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award) was created to honor excellence in children's literature. Each year since 1957, Vermont students in grades four through eight have selected their favorite book from a list of 30 nominees. It is recommended that students read at least five of the year's nominated titles before voting. Voting takes place in the spring, generally beginning in April.
The 2020 Middle Grade Award winner is Small Spaces by Katherine Arden.
Ollie Adler saves an old book from a distraught woman threatening to throw it into a river. The book leads Ollie into a dangerous, supernatural struggle for survival at a local farm. Ollie and her friends can only survive if they can hide in the “small spaces” and follow the mysterious messages that appear on her “broken” digital wristwatch.
The 2020 Middle Grade Award winner is Small Spaces by Katherine Arden.
Ollie Adler saves an old book from a distraught woman threatening to throw it into a river. The book leads Ollie into a dangerous, supernatural struggle for survival at a local farm. Ollie and her friends can only survive if they can hide in the “small spaces” and follow the mysterious messages that appear on her “broken” digital wristwatch.
2020-21 MIDDLE GRADE NOMINEES
Green Mountain Book Award
The 2020 GMBA winner is The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself.
So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out, much less speak her words out loud. But still, she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself.
So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out, much less speak her words out loud. But still, she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
2020-21 GMBA Nominees
For a printable list of this year's nominees click HERE.
JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL
2020 Newbery Medal winner
New Kid written and illustrated by Jerry Craft
2020 Newbery Medal Honor books
The Undefeated written by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Scary Stories for Young Foxes written by Christian McKay Heidicker, illustrated by Junyi Wu
Other Words for Home written by Jasmine Warga
Genesis Begins Again, written by Alicia D. Williams
New Kid written and illustrated by Jerry Craft
2020 Newbery Medal Honor books
The Undefeated written by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Scary Stories for Young Foxes written by Christian McKay Heidicker, illustrated by Junyi Wu
Other Words for Home written by Jasmine Warga
Genesis Begins Again, written by Alicia D. Williams
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