All of Hall's students will have an opportunity to vote for their favorite Chickadee or Maine Student Book Award book this year on March 26th.  These two state programs introduce students to a variety of newly published children's books each year.  Students in grades K - 4 will vote for their favorite from a list of 10 Chickadee books. Students in grades 4 and 5 who had read three or more of the Maine Student Book Award books can vote for their favorite MSBA book. Students read and evaluate the books so that they can decide which book they feel is the best.  This will be the fourth year that the students in Mr. Fuller's and Ms. Lammers' fourth grade class conduct the election using the library as the polling place. 

Last year's winning Chickadee title for Hall School was The Great Fuzz Frenzy by . The winning MSBA book was The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. On April 13 the winning titles for the state were announced at the Reading Roundup conference in Augusta.  Once again Hall School students voted for these same titles as their favorites.

Following is a list of the 10 Chickadee books for 2007-08 school year:

An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Aston
Pop's Bridge by Eve Bunting
Duck and Goose by Tad Hills
Library Lion by Michelle Knudson
Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies
Aliens Are Coming by Meghan McCarthy
Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur! by Margaret Read McDonald
Butterfly Eggs and Other Secrets of the Meadow by Joyce Sidman
Probuditi! by Chris Van Allsburg
Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara by Elvira Woodruff


Here are the 20 Maine Student Book Awards titles for this school year:

Tales of the Cryptids by Kelly Milner Halls
What Stinks? by Marilyn Singer
Rescues by Sandra Markle
Wind Bird: Gift of the Mist by Sarah Stiles Bright
Oh, Rats! by Albert Martin
Heroes of Baseball by Robert Lipsyte
Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex
The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett
Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
The Runaway Princess by Kate Coombs
The Last Dragon by Silvana De Mari
The White Elephant by Sid Fleischman
The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
Two Hot Dogs with Everything by Paul Haven
Sand Dollar by Kimberly Jones
Dria My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard
Rules by Cythia Lord
Heat by Mike Lupica
Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow
The Legend of Thunderfoot by Bill Wallace
Onward by Dolores Johnson
The Adventures of Marco Polo by Russel Freedman

Mrs. Fricke reading a Chickadee book to students in the library.