SUNSHINE STATE YOUNG READER'S AWARD PROGRAM

The Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program (SSYRA) is a statewide reading motivation program for students in grades 3-8. The program is cosponsored by the School Library Media Services Office of the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME).
THE STATE SUNSHINE YOUNG READER'S AWARD WINNER
Purposes of the SSYRA Program
Students in grades 3-5 participate. Students in 3rd
grade who read 3
of the books and pass an Accelerated Reader test with 70% or better get to vote
for their favorite author the last of March. Students in 4th-5th
grades who read 3
of the books and pass an Accelerated Reader test with 80% or better get to vote
for their favorite author the last of March. Students who read 7 or more
books and pass the Accelerated Reader test with an will be invited
to a Pizza Party in May. Special prizes will be given.
The 2008-2009 list for 3rd-5th grades is:
| Author | Title |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | The Blue Ghost |
| Clements, Andrew | No Talking |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | The Missing Manatee |
| DiSalvo, DyAnne | The Sloppy Copy Slipup |
| Dowell, Frances O'Roark | Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!: The First Experiment |
| Gorman, Carol and Ron J. Findley | Stumptown Kid |
| Graff, Lisa | The Thing about Georgie |
| Gutman, Dan | The Homework Machine |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Dexter the Tough |
| Kehret, Peg | The Ghost's Grave |
| Lord, Cynthia | Rules |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Roxie and the Hooligans |
| Pennypacker, Sara | Clementine |
| Repka, Janice | The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco |
| Tolan, Stephanie | Listen! |
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