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Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers
Teens: Vote for your favorites by Friday, March 12th, 2010.

Purpose
The purpose of the Georgia Peach Award is to highlight and promote the best current young adult literature for Georgia high school age students, to encourage young adults to read and to promote the development of cooperative school and public library services for young adults. Teens vote for their favorite books out of the year's top 20 nominees at their high schools and local public libraries.


Goals

  • To encourage Georgia young adults in grades 9-12 to recognize and read quality literature appropriate to their needs, interests, and reading levels.
  • To honor outstanding works in young adult literature.
  • To recognize authors in the field of young adult literature.
  • To develop cooperative school and public library services to teens.

Supporting Organizations
The Georgia Peach Award will be administered by the Georgia Library Media Association, Georgia Library Association, Georgia Public Library Service, and the Georgia Association of Educators.

Guidelines

Click here to download guidelines document.

Winners for the 2008-2009 Georgia Peach Book Award

Winner: Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

Honor Book Winner:

Right Behind You by Gail Giles Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

List of Titles

This list is used in the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl for the high school competition in the and will be promoted in public libraries as part of the Vacation Reading Program.

Past Winners 2004-2008:
Click here to view past winners.

Blog:
Click here to view Georgia Peach Teen Books Blog

Downloads:
All the materials needed to participate in the Georgia Peach Award can be found on this site and may be freely printed and distributed.

2009-2010 Presentation Powerpoint
2009-2010 Nominees Powerpoint
BookTalks (PDF)
Discussion Questions (PDF)
Annotated Booklist (Word)
Promoting the Peach (PDF)

2009-2010 Voting Tally Sheet (Excel)
Book Nomination Form
(Word)


Voting Ballot Forms (PDF)
Poster with Guidelines (Publisher)
Table Tents (Publisher)

Spine Labels for winners Word | PDF & Nominees Word

PINES
Georgia Library Public Information Network for Electronic Services, or PINES, is Georgia's public library automation and lending network for 249 libraries in 127 counties. PINES is an initiative of the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the University System of Georgia. Fifty percent of Georgia's population and 44 of Georgia's 58 public library systems rely on the PINES network for their library service.

Any resident of Georgia may obtain a free PINES card by visiting any PINES library. In addition to browsing and checking out books on the shelves of their local libraries, PINES allows library users to log on to http://pines.lib.ga.us, browse or search the online catalog for books and other library materials and have their selections delivered to their local library. Anyone with a PINES card can access the PINES catalog by using computers at their local library or by using a PIN number to log on from home.



 READING COMMITTEE 2008-2009

Jesse DeMaria, Chair
Jessica_demaria@yahoo.com
Atlanta Fulton Public Library System
Roswell Regional
115 Norcross Street
Roswell, GA 30075


Suzanne Gordon, Vice-Chair
Suzanne_Gordon@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Peachtree Ridge High School
1555 Old Peachtree Road
Suwanee, GA 30024

Elaine Black
eblack@georgialibraries.org
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345


Marlan Brinkley
mbrinkleyjr@hotmail.com
Atlanta Fulton Public Library System
238 Canton Street
Alpharetta, GA 30009

Ada E. Demlow
ademlow@krlibrary.org
Randolph County Library
106 East Pearl Street
Cuthbert, GA 39840

Mary K. Donovan
mary_kay donovan@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Mill Creek High School
4400 Braselton Hwy.
Hoschton, GA 30548

Connie Hanes
madkatehere@yahoo.com
Fairmount Elementary School
223 Temple Drive
Dalton, GA 30720
Susan Hawk
hawk-s@mindspring.com
Dunwoody High School
5035 Vermack Road
Dunwoody, GA 30338

Neely Hudson
Neely.Hudson@greene.k12.ga.us
Greene County High School
1002 S. Main Street
Greensboro, GA 30642

Carol Malcolm
cmalcolm@alltel.net
Riverside Military Academy
2001 Riverside Drive
Gainesville, GA 30533

Heather Salters
hsalters@gmail.com
Dekalb County Public Library
Decatur Branch Library
215 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30032

Andrea Waldrip
awaldrip@jackson. k12.ga.us
Jackson County Schools
74 Olde Wick Trail
Hoschton, Ga 30548

 

 

 

 


 


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