Contact: Paige Wasson
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November 2001
Students meet Young Hoosier Book Award winners at AASL Conference
Join the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) for an author banquet on Friday, November 16, that honors the 2000 Young Hoosier Book Award (YHBA) winners: Andrew Clements for "Double Trouble in Walla Walla," Phyllis Reynolds Naylor for "Saving Shiloh" and Gail Carson Levine for "Ella Enchanted."
Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m., and book sales and an autographing session will immediately follow.
The YHBA recognizes Indiana students' favorite books published within the last five years. The purpose of the YHBA program is to stimulate recreational reading among K-3, 4-6 and 6-8 students in Indiana. Each year the YHBA committee selects 20 nominees, and the winners are selected by students throughout Indiana voting for their favorite book of the year. Each vote cast locally is counted at the state level. The first YHBA was given during 1974-75 school year, with 4,681 students choosing E.B. White's "Trumpet of the Swan" as the winner. Last year more than 84,000 students throughout the state voted for their favorite book.
The banquet is part of AASL's 10th National Conference and Exhibition being held November 14-18 at the Indiana Convention Center & RCA Dome in Indianapolis. More than 4,000 school library media specialists are expected to attend the conference. AASL strives to advocate excellence, facilitate change and develop leaders in the school library media field. AASL is a division of the American Library Association.
The YHBA is sponsored by the Association of Indiana Media Educators (AIME), an association of the Indiana Library Federation.
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