Latest SSYRA News

Voting dates: March 22 - April 16, 2010.

The school library media specialist must have registered for this school year prior to submitting votes. Over 1,100 school library media specialists have registered as of early February! Thank you for not waiting until voting begins to register :-)

FAQ--did I register for my school?

If the confirmation email sent when you registered has been misplaced or deleted, the quickest way to answer the questions is to got to the Register/Login page, enter your email address at school, and click the Email my Password box. Then be sure to check your email, including any Spam or Junk folders. If you did register, you will be sent your password. If you did not register, you will get a message "no password found."See further down this page for registration information.

Gulf Breeze Middle School Students Go For the Gold!

You are looking at students who have read over a total of 520 quality novels representing some of the best middle school literature available (Sunshine State Young Readers Award 6-8 collection) and this photo was taken in mid-December. Those blue Literary Dolphin cards that they are flashing represent 3 or more SSYRA books and the gold ones represent 10 or more books.  The numbers of students and books grow daily. Why? Ask school library media specialist Sharon Henderson, or any member of the Gulf Breeze Middle School's Reading Literacy Team why these students are motivated and they will tell you about their reading initiative.

Is your school doing wonderful things related to the Sunshine State Young Readers Award? Email the SSYRA webmaster!

Registration

For the 2009-2010 school year, the letter with registration information and the temporary password was distributed electronically to public school district media contacts for distribution via district email systems. If you did not receive the letter from your school district, please email the SSYRA volunteer webmaster for a copy of the letter. Using your school email account, please and include your name, school name and school district in the email, please.

Private school library media specialists will need to send an email from their school email account and include: school name, county name, grade levels served by the school, and the media specialist's name to the SSYRA volunteer webmaster to get a pdf of the letter.

Make sure that email from myssyra@gmail.com is not blocked so you can receive the response.

Nominate Books for Future SSYRA Lists

Have a new favorite book that would be a fabulous SSYRA book? To nominate up to 3 books for consideration for next year, please visit this survey set up by former SSYRA Reader Josh Newhouse: