Illinois State Book Awards

Prairieview students are being invited to participate in Illinois Book Awards: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award (grades 4-8) and brand new this year the Bluestem Award (grades 3-5). To be eligible to vote for the Caudills, students must have read 3 of the twenty nominees. The voting will take place in February. To be eligible to vote of the Bluestems, students must have read 4 of the twenty nominees. The voting will take place in March. Both of these programs give students great power. The nominees are bought by most libraries throughout the state and the winning authors will sell many, many copies of their books in Illinois and, well, around the world. We ask that students who are fortunate enough to have public library cards borrow these books at the public libraries. This will leave the copies in the school library availble for students who do not have public library cards.