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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#2F5496">Please pardon the cross-posting.</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#2F5496">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5496">Hi. I am posting this on behalf of Libby Hamler-Dupras, Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice Award Committee Chair. On a related note,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5496">
</span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="https://www.olaweb.org/orca"><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Oregon
Reader’s Choice Award</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"> (or
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5496">ORCA) voting is open through April 14. – Thanks,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5496">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<span style="color:black"> </span></span><img border="0" width="115" height="201" style="width:1.2in;height:2.0916in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D72FA1.30B557F0" alt="BCCCA-Support Materials"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<span style="color:black"> </span></span><img border="0" width="427" height="120" style="width:4.45in;height:1.25in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D72FA1.30B557F0" alt="alt"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">21st
Year!<sup> </sup></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A<span style="color:black">pril 12<sup>th</sup></span> would have been
<span style="color:black">Beverly Cleary’s </span>107<sup>th</sup> <span style="color:black">
birthday</span>. Today, the <span style="color:black">BCCCA Committee </span>is proud to<span style="color:black"> announce that over </span>1,731 Kindergarten through Junior High School students<span style="color:black">
</span>from Oregon <i>and</i> Kansas <span style="color:black">participated in voting for their favorite
</span>2022-2023<span style="color:black"> BCCCA </span>title<span style="color:black">!</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">20</span></b><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">22<span style="color:black">-</span>2023<span style="color:black"> BCCCA Winner is……<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<img border="0" width="202" height="298" style="width:2.1in;height:3.1083in" id="Picture_x0020_14" src="cid:image017.jpg@01D84E7A.FA685DB0" alt="Amazon.com: Puppy Problems (Peanut, Butter, and Crackers): 9780593117439: Braddock, Paige: Books"></span><span style="font-size:28.0pt;color:black;background:white">by
Paige Braddock</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">In this hilarious graphic novel, Crackers, a goofy dog who goes nuts over squirrels and Butter, a plump cat who loves licking butter, have a nice, cushy, life together
— until the day their human comes home with a <i>puppy</i>!</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">
<span style="color:#333333">Floppy-eared Peanut is afraid of the dark: yowl! He dips into all the food bowls: slurp! He drools, chews up stuff, always wants to play, and hogs the human’s lap. Crackers and Butter have had it with all the puppy crazyness! This
is book #1 in the <i>Peanut Butter & Crackers</i> series<i>.</i></span></span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<span style="color:black"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Announcing the </span></b><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2023-2024</span></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
BCCCA Nomin</span></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ees……</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"> </span> <span style="color:black"> </span>
<span style="color:black"> </span> <img border="0" width="206" height="307" style="width:2.1416in;height:3.2in" id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D96D7D.8DD9EFB0" alt="55442215. sx318 "> <img border="0" width="219" height="292" style="width:2.2833in;height:3.0416in" id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D96D7D.8DD9EFB0" alt="53466009"> <img border="0" width="207" height="307" style="width:2.1583in;height:3.2in" id="Picture_x0020_12" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D96D7D.8DD9EFB0" alt="Hardcover Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box, Too!: Ready-To-Read Graphics Level 3 Book"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><img border="0" width="217" height="290" style="width:2.2583in;height:3.025in" id="Picture_x0020_13" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D96D7D.8DD9EFB0" alt="The cover of an advanced reader copy of Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World, signed by the author, Jacqueline Davies, with the message, "Keep Exploring!""><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><img border="0" width="213" height="293" style="width:2.2166in;height:3.05in" id="Picture_x0020_15" src="cid:image011.jpg@01D96D7D.8DD9EFB0" alt="54798461"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><img border="0" width="222" height="292" style="width:2.3166in;height:3.0416in" id="Picture_x0020_17" src="cid:image012.jpg@01D96D7D.8DD9EFB0" alt="54870193"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><img border="0" width="238" height="297" style="width:2.475in;height:3.0916in" id="Picture_x0020_18" src="cid:image013.jpg@01D96D7D.8DD9EFB0" alt="55200722"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="punctuation-wrap:simple"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Too Small Tola </span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">by Atinuke.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#181818;background:white">Three delightful stories about Too Small Tola, a young girl who, though small, is very determined. Tola lives in a flat in Lagos, Nigeria with her
sister, Moji, who is very clever; her brother, Dapo, who is very fast; and Grandmummy, who is very bossy. Tola proves to be stronger than she seems when she goes to market with Grandmummy! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Aven Green Sleuthing Machine
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Aven Green #1)
<b><i> </i></b>by Dusti Bowling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#181818;background:white">Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a <i>whole month</i>—cracking such cases as <i>The Mystery of the Cranky Mom</i>. But can this
perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher’s lunch bag disappears and then Aven’s great-grandma’s dog goes missing. Fortunately, since Aven was born without arms, all the “arm” cells went to her super-powered brain instead. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box, Too! </span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">by Maggie P. Chang.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="punctuation-wrap:simple"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#363636;background:white">Meet spunky, funny, and friendly Geraldine Pu as she takes on a bully and makes a new friend. Geraldine Pu's favorite
part of school is lunch. She loves her lunch box, which she calls Biandang. She can't wait to see what her grandmother, Amah, has packed inside it each day. Then one day, Geraldine gets stinky tofu...and an unexpected surprise. What will she do?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="punctuation-wrap:simple"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World </span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">by Jacqueline Davies.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#181818;background:white">The</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0F1111;background:white"> story of two unlikely friends: Sydney and Taylor,
a skunk and a hedgehog who strike out to discover the great unknown, despite how afraid they are of it.<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">by Erin Entrada Kelly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0F1111">Marisol Rainey’s mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol’s father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination
and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina . . . but she’s way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere and a father who lives elsewhere
(most of the time)—the only girl who’s fearful of adventure and fun.Will Marisol be able to salvage her summer and have fun with Jada, her best friend? Maybe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-To-Be Best Friend
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">by Dawn Quigley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#181818;background:white">Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always
seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Back-To-School Blitz </span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(<i>Twins vs Triplets #1)<b>
</b></i>by Jennifer Torres.<b><i> <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#181818;background:white">Peace-loving David gets stuck in the middle of a prank war when his neighbors—the Romero Twins and the Benitez Triplets—vie for playground domination!</span>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#181818;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A huge shout-out of thanks<span style="color:black"> to all
</span>the public, parochial and private <span style="color:black">school</span>s<span style="color:black">
</span>and <span style="color:black">public libraries and classroom teachers</span> who<span style="color:black"> promot</span>ed<span style="color:black"> and encourag</span>ed<span style="color:black">
</span>their readers<span style="color:black"> </span>to <span style="color:black">
participat</span>e<span style="color:black"> </span>in voting for their favorite<span style="color:black">
</span>Beverly Cleary<span style="color:black"> Children’s Choice Award</span> nominee!</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information on the BCCCA program, please go to the BCCCA homepage <a href="https://ola.memberclicks.net/bccca-home">https://ola.memberclicks.net/bccca-home</a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In another week, the 2023-2024 BCCCA Slide Deck with educational links on next year’s seven BCCCA Nominees, the Animoto, 2023-24 spine labels, 2023-24 Student Paper Ballot and Newberg Public
Library’s Amanda Lambs’s flyer and bookmarks will be posted on the BCCCA website. Official voting for the 2023-2024 BCCCA titles opens next year on March 15, 2024 and closes on April 10, 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Keep on Reading!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warmly,</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Libby Hamler-Dupras BCCCA Committee Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:elfigirl@Q.com">elfgirl@Q.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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