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<DIV class=gmail_quote>Posted on behalf of the ORCA Committee. Congratulations to this year's winners!</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>Please excuse any cross posting.<BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>The 2015 Oregon Reader's Choice Award winners and the 2016 nominees were announced at the Oregon Library Association conference in Eugene on Friday. Please excuse cross-posting.<BR>The Oregon Reader's Choice Award Committee is pleased to announce the 2015 ORCA winners and the 2016 Nominees. They were announced at the Oregon Library Association conference in Eugene. </DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><B>Winners</B></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Upper Elementary Division: </SPAN><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px" color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif"><I><B>The One and Only Ivan</B></I></FONT></FONT><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px"> </SPAN><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px" color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif">by Katherine Applegate</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Middle School Division: </SPAN><I style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Ungifted </B></I><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Gordon Korman</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">High School Division: </SPAN><I style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>The Fault in our Stars </B></I><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by John Green</SPAN>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif"><B>2016 ORCA Nominees</B></FONT></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT color=#000000>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif"><B><U>Upper Elementary Division</U></B></SPAN></DIV></FONT></DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif"><I><B>True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif"> by Kathi Appelt</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Jinx </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Sage Blackwood</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Flora & Ulysses </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Kate DiCamillo</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Chris Grabenstein</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>A Tangle of Knots </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Lisa Graff</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px" color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif"><I><B>Donner Dinner Party</B></I></FONT></FONT><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px"> </SPAN><FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px" color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif">by Nathan Hale</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Mountain Dog </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Margarita Engle</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Rooftoppers </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Katherine Rundell</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><U style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Middle School Division</B></U></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Serafina's Promise </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Ann E. Burg</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Etiquette & Espionage </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Gail Carriger</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Etched in Clay </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Andrea Cheng</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Tony Cliff</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Counting by 7s </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Holly Goldberg Sloan</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>The Great Trouble </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Deborah Hopkinson</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>One Came Home </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Amy Timberlake</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Brotherhood </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Anne Westrick</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><U style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>High School Division</B></U></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif"><I><B>The Coldest Girl in Coldtown</B></I></FONT></FONT><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px"> </SPAN><FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" color=#000000><FONT face="Arial, serif">by Holly Black</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>The Boys in the Boat </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Daniel James Brown</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>The Living </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Matt de la Pena</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>The Summer Prince </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Alaya Dawn Johnson</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Reality Boy </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by A.S. King</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>More Than This </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Patrick Ness</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><I style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B>Midwinterblood </B></I><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Marcus Sedgwick</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><B style="FONT-STYLE: italic">All Our Yesterdays </B></SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">by Cristin Terrill</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in" align=center></P><BR>Thank you to the many teachers, school librarians and staff, and librarians for providing an opportunity for students around the state to vote for their favorites. This year we had 2,454 students from about 70 schools and public libraries voting. If you have any photos or stories about your ORCA experience this year, please send them to me or comment on the blog. If you haven't held an ORCA vote at your location, the <A href="https://oregonreaderschoiceaward.wordpress.com/">ORCA blog</A> has booktalks, links to trailers, bookmarks and ballots. Thank you also to a great committee for making this all happen. If you have any questions, or comments, please feel free to email me.<BR>Nina Kramer, ORCA Chair, <A href="mailto:orca@olaweb.org">orca@olaweb.org</A></DIV>
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<DIV>ORCA Chair</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">
<DIV><BR></DIV>Sonja Somerville<BR>Teen Services Librarian<BR>Salem Public Library<BR><BR>Phone: 503-588-6083<BR>E-mail: ssomerville@cityofsalem.net<BR>FAX: 503-589-2011<BR>Address: 585 Liberty St. SE<BR> Salem, OR 97301</SPAN></BODY></HTML>